 a precedent and they didn't want to upset the apple cart and this had been somebody's right for 50 years and so let's not turn it all over uh right now since we've had this right for 50 years it will happen we take it right away but that said since the constitution if you want a a literal idea and a literal interpretation of the constitution it doesn't mention abortion so therefore it goes back to the state so constitutionally speaking the determination by the supreme court was sound could they have come up to a different conclusion