We needed to repeal Roe V Wade. Here’s why.

The leaked Supreme Court draft seemingly showing a majority opinion among Justices in favor of the appeal of Roe V Wade, was confirmed as authentic by the Court on May 3rd. Here’s why that’s important.

By: Mo Gerstley

On May 3rd, one day after the online news content distributor, POLITICO claimed to have obtained a leaked draft decision written by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Samual Alito, supposedly alluding to the Court's decision to appeal Roe V Wade, the Supreme Court confirmed that a decision to reverse the initial Roe V Wade ruling from 1973 was in fact dictated.

Almost immediately, mass protests across the nation broke out, in opposition to the court's decision, with many on the left calling the ruling an assault on “woman’s rights.” In recent days, demonstrations outside the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts have garnered criticism from the right, with some saying it's a personal threat to Judges. Still, MSNBC’s Zeeshan Aleem praised the protesters, calling them an “increasingly mobilized population furious about being disenfranchised and eager to question — and change — the very way our government works.”

However, the media refuses to acknowledge the importance of the decision, and why making it easier for states to ban abortion, is better for the nation. One of America’s key founding principles was the idea that the US will give locals the power of decision-making for their own communities. After all, one of the central reasons and the sole impetus to declare independence from England in 1776, were the citizens in the then-British colony in North America’s heightened anger over the lack of representation in their government, and the inability to make critical decisions about one’s own issues. Roe V. Wade doesn't ban abortion, instead, it allows individual states and communities to decide their stance on such important issues as abortion, for their own people.

The reversal of Roe V Wade allows for certain communities, perhaps those that are poorer, or less fortunate, or those inhabited by people who cannot be good parents, to make their own decisions on abortion laws, laws that differ from those of more religious, or wealthy, or suburban communities. This ruling helps communities that typically would have people who wouldn't be quality parents, to make better abortion laws tailored to those in their own state, rather than a universal abortion law across the nation. It allows for communities that are passionately opposed to abortion, to limit or ban it, for their own communities, and allows those that need it, to have it. It endows Americans more freedom to choose their own path, and not affect those across the nation.

The false notion that the reversal of Roe V Wade would effectively ban abortion nationwide is not only false, but it further divides an already disunified nation. Of course, the murder of fetuses is something many communities find deplorable, with others saying it is an important requisite to preserve a functioning society, and now, the repeal of Roe V Wade allows for traditionally red states that oppose abortion to outlaw it, and for generally blue states to legalize it. This Supreme Court decision is the substratum of American civic values, and it's a good thing it happened now.