Supreme Court should rethink precedents on contraception access and LGBTQ+ rights, says Justice Thomas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In turn, those rights led, more recently, to rights of same-sex intimacy and marriage.
51% : In a concurring opinion delivered Friday, Thomas suggested that the logic used by the court's conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey could signal similar outcomes for cases that recognized other personal rights: Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges.
47% : ""Rights regarding contraception and same-sex relationships are inherently different from the right to abortion," Alito wrote, "because the latter (as we have stressed) uniquely involves what Roe and Casey termed 'potential life.'"Alito was joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, in addition to Thomas.
46% : And in Obergefell, in 2015, the court ruled same-sex couples have an equal right to marry.
40% : Thomas argued that since the majority ruled that the right to abortion "is not a form of 'liberty' protected by the Due Process Clause" of the 14th Amendment, the same reasoning should apply more broadly.
39% : As the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to strike down the decades-old rulings that once established a constitutional right to choose to have an abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas urged his colleagues to reevaluate other landmark cases protecting contraceptive access, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriages.
38% : Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
37% : Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito noted, "The Court emphasizes that this decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right.

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