While the supreme court does reverse itself from time to time, this is the first time the court has ignored stare decisis in order to completely take away a constitutional right the court previously granted. That is a major break from the well settled system of constitutional law. The remedy for a supreme court ruling that the population disagrees with is an amendment to the constitution. We used to amend the constitution all the time. But today the political divisions are pretty close to 50/50 and a constitutional amendment is all but impossible. So, the conservative project since 1973 has been to pack the court with ideologues who are willing to abandon stare decisis and completely re-write constitutional law.
But it gets much worse. While repealing Roe opens up the real possibility of the court striking down Obergfell, Lawrence, and other cases in line with Roe's interpretation of the right to privacy, the real agenda of the conservative ideologues is the complete dismantling of Federal authority over everything save and except for actual commerce (buying and selling) between the states. J. Thomas has been pushing a complete overhaul of the commerce clause. The court has already started down this road when it struck the violence against women act and the gun-free school zone act. Next step will be taking down agencies like the EPA, EEOC, etc. because the right wingers think that "affecting interstate commerce" should just mean the regulation of contracts/buying and selling goods and services between states. Basically, a return to a Lochner era court that would strike down every progressive proposal from $!5 min wage to medicare for all to the green new deal.
