The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and allies want the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

According to a brief filed November 15, the Supreme Court could review a lower court ruling that banned discrimination against certain classes of unborn children according to sex, race, disability and other factors.

The Baptist Commission wants the court to find with the State of Indiana to uphold a 2016 law that bans abortions for various categories. The brief the commission filed asks the court to reconsider the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that invalidated state controls over abortion plus a 1992 opinion that reinforced Roe v. Wade.

This is a chance for the court to do what is right. President Trump has said that abortion should be legalized or banned by the states, not by the federal government and he’s right.

Now, the Supreme Court has Brett Kavanaugh – an originalist – replacing Anthony Kennedy, who supported federally controlled abortion.

National Association of Evangelicals, Concerned Women for America, National Legal Foundation and Pacific Justice Institute joined with the Baptists to support the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

In 2016, then-Gov. Mike Pence signed a law requiring doctors to inform their patients that Indiana does not permit an unborn child to be aborted only because of his or her “race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability.”

Abortion is murder, plain and simple. The first step toward a total ban should be the overturn of Roe v. Wade and a surrender of federal control to the states.