As we all know, this is an election year in the United States and one of the candidates was very explicit on his stance on abortion. What makes this critical is that the makeup of the Supreme Court can change dramatically during this Presidency. Not only are there expected retirements over the next few years, but Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have been blocking Obama's nominations for the past year and say they will continue to block them until the new Presidency.
“The Supreme Court – it’s what it’s all about. Our country is so, just so imperative that we have the right justices, I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint– and I’ve named 20 of them. The justices that I’m going to appoint will be pro-life. They will have a conservative bent.“ - Donald Trump
As you can see, Donald Trump intends to appoint pro-life justices and we can logically assume try to overturn the Roe vs. Wade legislation and will have the tools to likely succeed. Roe vs. Wade has been the landmark decision that has provided a woman's right to choose for over 40 years, and moved abortions out of the back alley and into competent professional hands. Many states have anti-abortion laws on the books, and once Roe vs. Wade is overturned, women in those states will lose their right to choose regardless how early on in their pregnancy, regardless if their lives are endangered, and regardless of the health of the fetus. Women will be forced to give birth to babies that will suffer terrible deaths after a few short days even though they were diagnosed early on in the pregnancy with severe defects.
This important decision is being kept in the shadows over all the hype of voter fraud, e-mails, etc. This deserves to be a major issue of this campaign.