The Supreme Court got it wrong. Let’s keep abortion out of politics.

Abortion has been an explosive political issue this year. Our current U.S. Supreme Court is made up of some individuals who I’m sure are extremely intelligent, thoughtful American legal scholars. 
But I have to say, when it comes to making practical, commonsense rulings on real-life issues that face modern-day Americans, they seem to not have a clue. (Their position on presidential immunity is an example.) Former President Donald Trump brags about having nominated some of the justices who sent the question of a woman’s right to abortion back to the states.
As a lifelong conservative, registered Republican and believer in Christian values, I have a moral problem with the idea of abortion. If, hypothetically, my beautiful young granddaughter were to find herself facing an unwanted pregnancy, I would do all I could to persuade her to have her baby and maybe consider adoption or some similar solution. But if her final decision was to go ahead with the procedure, I would give her a big hug, respect her decision and always love her just the same. 
Further, I would want her to have access to the absolute best medical care available in whatever state she lived.
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I have complete respect for those Americans who see abortion as a moral, yes, even a mortal sin. Many religious leaders rightfully view the subject with abhorrence. I get it.
But, for the sake of what is best for our democratic society, as a whole, with vastly diverse opinions and circumstances, there are just some problems that such a collective society’s leaders cannot and should not try to solve.
I believe we tried politicizing a moral issue in 1920 with the 18th Amendment, better known as Prohibition. Finally, after many unintended consequences, we gave up in 1933 and repealed the act.
The decision to have an abortion is or should be an extremely, uniquely personal, intimate decision that can only be made by a woman and her closest loved ones. Ultimately, hopefully, a competent medical doctor should also be part of the decision. 
Incidentally, issues like contraception, in vitro fertilization, gender alteration are similar issues that should be completely individual ones – not the subject of political debate and social commentary.
Trump knows abortioncould decide this election. Democrats need to act like it.
We don’t need the Supreme Court to tell us where abortion questions should be answered. 
State legislators are just like all politicians. Both sides seem to want to use the abortion issue as a political football, to make their political enemies look bad and themselves look like the heroes. It has become just another issue being used to divide us as a nation. 
The Supreme Court should have sent this moral issue back to the place it belongs, the individual American citizen who is directly affected by it.
Let’s demand that our legislators and our fellow citizens pass a constitutional amendment that prohibits any government entity – whether federal, state or local – from passing any law that denies any citizen their reproductive rights. Let’s agree that this is an issue that government cannot and should not attempt to control.
That’s the kind of individual freedom our founders envisioned.
Let’s move on to solve the many other political issues that deserve intelligent, commonsense solutions by politicians who are real leaders instead of sycophants to demagogues or demagoguery.
Jim Young, retired from a 42-year career as a senior banking executive, is a community leader in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. This column originally appeared in The Oklahoman.