> A bad decision is a bad decision no matter how long it's been in effect. If anything, following "precedent" is what got us into this mess in the first place. We could have ripped the bandaid off decades ago on abortion and fixed it then. Now it's going to be much more messy.

IMHO, what actually got us in this mess was the Supreme Court putting itself into a situation where it's regularly making momentous political decisions, rather that resolving finer points of law, resolving little corner cases, etc. It might be expedient to use its power to set social and economic policy, but that doesn't mean it's right.