The Supreme Court stabbing is evidence no one needed anymore: America's abortion controversy is being conducted in an undignified and reckless way that doesn't do justice to the cause.
If the Supreme Court, as there is much to be said for it, will soon actually throw out the right to an abortion, then no one can hope for prudence.
Republican-governed states will be in a race to see who will be the fastest and most ruthless in banning abortion.
The fact that a whopping majority of Americans are in favor of the status quo plays no part in conservative calculations.
Just as no politician in the Democrat camp dares to repeat Clinton's formula of the 1990s that abortion should be "safe, legal and infrequent" - anyone who does not fully support "reproductive justice" is considered a traitor, he had to be also learn from the Catholic Joe Biden.
The cowardice of politics
From a distance, one could even gain something from the foreseeable verdict: if the court overturns its fundamental decision, it will also highlight the cowardice of politics.
They would have had half a century to find a federal regulation instead of pushing ahead with their culture war in the slipstream of the supreme court's verdict.
But before that hurts the politicians, thousands and thousands of women will have to suffer from their lack of seriousness.
There is no justification for this.