Mississippi explicitly urged the Supreme Court this morning to do away with Roe v. Wade, the perpetually controversial 1973 ruling that took the regulation of abortion away from the states and made abortion lawful throughout the whole United States. It is time for the court to finally right the wrong it made 48 years ago, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott G. Stewart told the justices during oral arguments Dec. 1. Roe v. Wade is “an egregiously wrong decision” that allowed abortion and thereby polarized the politics of the nation for nearly half a century, Stewart said. Besides, Stewart said, contraception is a far better alternative to abortion as a method of birth control and it is “more available and affordable” than it was at the time of Roe v. Wade and its later 1992 companion ruling of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which held that states can’t impose significant restrictions on abortion …