LGBTQ community braces for rollback of rights after abortion ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The case for same-sex marriage, for example, relies on the notion that it is a fundamental right and liberty, with cases dating from to the early 1900s outlining Americans' right to marry.
51% : But countering such rollbacks was the strong foundation of court cases that protected both same-sex marriage and intimacy.
49% : The overturning of Roe v. Wade sent shockwaves as it grapples with not only the consequences for those who can get pregnant, but also the threat to Supreme Court decisions granting rights to gay marriage and same-sex intimacy.
45% : Justice Clarence Thomas, agreeing with the majority that states could ban abortion, called on the Supreme Court to re-examine cases allowing both LGBTQ rights as well as the right to contraception.
45% : Rob Hill, the Human Rights Campaign's Mississippi executive director, said Roe falling and bills like Florida's measure to limit discussions in schools about sexual orientation and gender identity -- labeled by critics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill -- may embolden Republican lawmakers to ramp up their efforts.
43% : It's a sentiment felt among many in the LGBTQ community -- that preventing access to abortion and preventing gender-affirming care to patients, as has been pushed in many states, represent the same sort of governmental overreach on historically marginalized groups.
39% :Abortion, he argued, is not.
38% : Despite Thomas's explicit references to reexamining same sex marriage and intimacy cases, the demise of such rulings is not set in stone.
38% : She said the justice's arguments in this abortion case "invites a contrived approach, saying 'Well, was there same-sex marriage in 1790?'"LGBTQ Americans are not unaccustomed to the prospect of increased restrictions on their rights.
34% : The Supreme Court's ruling overturning a constitutional right to abortion sent fear through the LGBTQ community Friday, after the release of the decision set out potential targets: Supreme Court cases legalizing same-sex intimacy and marriage.
34% : Alito said in the decision that the arguments backing up the overturn of Roe don't necessarily apply to same-sex cases, saying at one point that such assumptions seemed "designed to stoke unfounded fear that our decision will imperil those other rights."

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