Here's Why Overturning Roe v. Wade Was the Right Decision

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When people discuss the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade I have the impression that they either don't understand the ruling or they want to make people who don't understand the ruling think that it means something else. The overturning of Roe v. Wade DOES NOT ban abortion. The decision by the highest court simply leaves the decision whether to allow it or not up to the individual states. Ultimately, the decision leaves it up to the voters to decide. Sure, that does put the battle on, of course. Naturally the pro-lifers are going to fight for restrictions or an outright ban. And naturally the pro-choicers are going to fight to allow it. That's just common sense. In other words, it's leaving the ultimate decision up to YOU. The voter. You can lobby your Assemblies and State Senators to let them know how YOU, the voter feels, and allow votes to be made in the interests of the MAJORITY. I am pro-life and always have been. At the same time, while I support the recent decision to overturn the ruling, I largely always also supported Roe v. Wade and here's why. Just like my stance is that gun control laws will not stop guns from getting into certain hands, banning abortions doesn't mean they won't happen anyway. They will just be done in dark rooms and in less than sanitary and unregulated ways with no checks and balances. And that DOES have a greater negative impact overall, in my opinion, than the abortions themselves, regardless of whether or not I think abortions are wrong. The federal government has simply said, "We will not dictate to the American people on a federal level what they can or cannot do." That's it. That's all overturning Roe v. Wade is about. The Federal government will not make the decision on whether or not abortion should be legal. Some states will manage to ban it while others may not. That's called democracy and how it should work in our Democratic Republic. We the people decide who gets to represent us and our interests. The majority rules and the ones who lead our assemblies, our state capitols, our Congress and our Senates are decided by US. If we don't like their decisions we vote them out. If we agree with their positions we vote them in. If they make the WRONG decisions we lobby for change. When Roe v. Wade became the law, it was discussion over. No one would argue one way or the other. It was a done deal and a moot point. That's the law. Period. Doesn't matter what you think. Doesn't matter what you want. That's the law. Deal with it. If Roe v. Wade would have been decided differently, those who are mad about it being overturned would equally be mad about it being the law had the law not dictated what they wanted. In other words, if Roe v. Wade would have said "Abortion is banned, period," and no one could further examine what they wanted the law to be, that would have made people mad. The states now control the issue. If anyone feels one way or the other about the law as it stands now, it is now open for discussion. As it should be.