Legal experts fear loss of abortion right could usher in end of same-sex marriage, other rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "There is obviously no tradition of same-sex marriage per se, but Justice [Anthony M.] Kennedy's brilliant opinion allowed the court to reach deeper into the American tradition of liberty to generalize about the rights and freedoms at stake," Katyal wrote Tuesday in an article for the Washington Post.
46% :Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional law professor emeritus of at Harvard University, argued in an opinion article in the Boston Globe on Tuesday that not many people will forget where they were when they heard about the draft opinion overturning Roe, a landmark decision from 1973 that established a woman's constitutional right to abortion.
44% :Chemerinsky and other experts, such as Neal K. Katyal, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center who formerly served as acting U.S. solicitor general, have questioned whether the Supreme Court will now target the right to same-sex marriage.
44% : Douglas NeJaime, a professor at Yale Law School with expertise in sexuality and constitutional law, pointed out to the Washington Post that Alito said the Dobbs ruling only applied to abortion, and that Roe was different than other issues weighed by the high court.
43% : "The right to abortion does not fall within this category."
41% : "Roe's defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called 'fetal life.'"The Supreme Court affirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992 that the Constitution protects a woman's right to have an abortion before a fetus becomes viable.
39% : "The same move made in the draft opinion about abortion, however, can be used to overturn Obergefell."
39% : He agreed that opponents of same-sex marriage could possibly use Alito's logic in attempts to overturn Obergefell."Ultimately, what the court will do, nobody knows," said Woods, who added that Alito's "draft absolutely provides a blueprint for the court essentially eroding or even overturning important constitutional precedents that are in this area of privacy that clearly this draft opinion is hostile towards."
37% : In the two days since Politico published a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that seems to strike down Roe v. Wade, several legal experts have expressed concerns that the same reasoning that eliminates the right to abortion could also put other constitutional rights at risk.
19% : Conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the 98-page draft opinion that the U.S. Constitution doesn't reference abortion, and the right to abortion is also not implicitly protected by any of its provisions, including the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

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