Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court observers are focusing on an aspect of last Thursday's decision to overturn a national campaign finance reform law that shows the high court could establish a legal basis for overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that has resulted in 52 million abortions.

The high court also overturned a law that had been on the books for more than a century.

During his confirmations hearing Chief Justice John Roberts talked about the importance of precedent and members of the Senate asked him if he respected the supposed precedent of Roe.

“It's settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis,” Roberts said at the time.

But, in last Thursday’s 5-to-4 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling dismantling the McCain-Feingold campaign law, Roberts joined fellow Bush appointee Justice Samuel Alito to issue a separate concurrence “to address the important principles of judicial restraint and stare decisis implicated in this case.”

The language of the Roberts-Alito concurrence has an important bearing on abortion...