I don't know what distance has to do with it. I would probably be voted out of existence by my town, if the same constitution hadn't convinced them that they have no right. Independence Hall is remote in space and the events still more in time.

The pretense of Dobbs is that laws against abortion are like laws prohibiting medical marijuana or setting speed limits. This contradicts the purpose of laws against abortion and the actual language of most of them. It was obviously a desperate decision, irrespective of the truth about abortion