6/ The corruption began in 1987 with the campaign of defamation and vilification against Robert Bork--which was, let us not deceive ourselves, all about abortion and the future of Roe v. Wade--and it has never stopped.

7/ Roe v. Wade has distorted our politics and public life in other ways, too. Unsavory politicians of both parties who ought not to be supported by anybody, are supported by people who back them only or mainly because they pledge to work to protect--or to overturn--Roe v. Wade.

8/ Even folks who favor a fairly permissive regime of abortion law, unless they are fanatics, can see that the best thing that could happen would be for Roe to go and for the policy it established on abortion to be replaced by policies with some measure of democratic legitimacy.

9/ In most places, and probably in the country as a whole, the law would not provide protections for unborn babies nearly as strong as I would favor; but in most places, and probably in the country as a whole, it would not authorize unlimited abortion as our current law does.

10/ And our judicial selection process and other aspects of our politics would no longer be corrupted as they are now by a constitutionally indefensible act of what Justice Byron White described as "raw judicial power." Things wouldn't be perfect. But they would be better.