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by wbsss4412 1458 days ago
1. Roe was based on the precedent set by griswold.

2. What legal precedent did roe upend? I can’t think of any.

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Every case where a woman/doctor was charged for actions in relation to illegal abortion. And every time those convictions were affirmed by lower courts.
That’s not what legal precedent is.

Otherwise anytime a law is passed, we’d consider it “overturning precedent”.

Precedent means that there is a long string of legal jurisprudence on a subject. Obviously roe/griswold created a new one, but it didn’t overturn/upend an existing one.