It’s not what you think.

Most people think the reversal of Roe vs. Wade would outlaw abortion, but it wouldn’t. If the Supreme Court upholds Mississippi’s law in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the abortion decision would be left to the states. Elected state officials are naturally closer to their constituencies, while Roe puts distant, unelected federal judges in charge of abortion policy.

Roe imposes a one-size-fits-all legal system that leaves Americans without a voice. Overturning Roe gets the courts out of the abortion business and allows Americans to have a discussion and come to consensus through their elected officials. Consensus will look different in different places. Overturning Roe does not take away rights, but rather gives more rights to citizens through the legislative process.  

As it stands, America is only one of six nations, including China and Korea, that allows late term abortion with no limitations until the time of birth.

We are one of only eight countries allowing abortion of a child who can hear her mother’s heartbeat.  We are in the bottom 4 percent of the most appalling abortion policies in the world.

Even Justice Ruth Ginsburg called Roe an “unnecessary” decision and a “heavy-handed judicial intervention” which halts the political process. Although the pro-abortion advocates claim abortion is a Constitutional right, they are wrong. In his leaked draft opinion in Dobbs, Justice Alito wrote that the Fourteenth Amendment never contemplated a right to abortion which was fabricated by the Court. “Three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy” when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted.  After 49 years, there appears to be a majority on the Court that recognizes abortion is “fundamentally different,” because it destroys fetal life—an unborn human being.

Roe was “egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak and the decision has had damaging consequences . . . Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” stated Justice Alito in the draft opinion. And that’s what this opinion would do – not outlaw abortion, but give power to the states.