(Reuters) - Is the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous ruling on Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization the beginning of the end of deference to established precedent?

Certainly not in the view of the five justices who signed the majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the 49-year-old case that assured a constitutional right to abortion, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that upheld Roe's constitutional conclusion. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the court's opinion, cited dozens of examples of cases in which the Supreme Court decided that its previous decisions were so “egregiously wrong” that they had to be undone....