The beginning assumption of the left – one that informs literally 100% of their positions on social/political issues – is that the public at large is essentially immoral and incompetent, and need to be controlled and restrained by the educated, enlightened elite (i.e., themselves). This is why the Second Amendment is so hated by leftists; they consider armed citizens a horror that must be avoided at all costs.
But oddly enough this leftist assumption of citizen incompetence is also operative in the abortion issue. Though one might mistakenly think the leftist position of abortion-on-demand empowers citizens by leaving the choice to them whether to have one or not, this is in fact not what the abortion issue is all about; the abortion issue is really about the question of who gets to make the rules. Leftists assume the citizens and their elected representives are incompetent to make rules about abortion, and as leftists already “know” the correct moral choice on this issue (modern liberalism being in many respects a kind of God-free quasi-religion), they have removed the perogative to legislate on this subject from the people and those accountable to them and handed it to SCOTUS.
