There is a compelling argument that Roe should have been decided under the 13th Amendment's prohibition of slavery. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/cowardly-supreme-court-refuses-to-fix-faulty-logic-flaky-ruling-in-roe-v-wade-890f8bfd449c That is an article by another writer that I just read. I have written that since the belief that life begins pre-viability is a religious position, laws that criminalize or unduly regulate pre-vibaility abortion violate the 1st Amendment's antiestablishment clause. (I happen to believe that life begins at conception but I am 100% pro-choice) https://medium.com/p/4d234daa2e71 Either provides a stronger basis than the conjured privacy right that the Roe majority chose and which gave the decision a limited shelf-life that has created a faction determined to ignore stare decisis and overturn Roe. Stare decisis should in theory have protected Roe because while the logic was flawed, the outcome was not, as opposed to Plessy.