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The irony of you trying to act like you taking a college law class made you qualified to speak as if your opinion was fact while saying "Ok." to me giving my own qualifications.
Lol.
Anyway, it's valid to say that the details were evolving post-Roe (e.g. Casey), but the core principle of a right to an abortion was not really in question. Roe was the natural outcome of the decisions that had come before it.
If not for Dobbs, this decision in Alabama would not have happened. That's fact.
Why are my beliefs on that relevant to a discussion of whether Roe was settled law?
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I went to law school, the way you frame this sounds like there was consensus that it was bad law or something and that's absolutely not the case. So no it was not expected to be overturned.
Roe and the right to abortion, like many rights that people take for granted, has a complex history in the implied rights that SCOTUS had long said were settled law.
Your right to privacy, to medical decisions, to contraception, to make parental decisions, etc... all had the same essential foundations.
Your college law professor was giving you their opinion, nothing more.