Clarence Thomas calls for elimination of 'substantive due process' standard

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : In Roe v. Wade, the court divined a right to abortion because it 'fe[lt]' that 'the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty' included a 'right of privacy' that 'is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.'"Simply put, the court has protected "preferred rights."
46% : He agreed with the majority's statement: "nothing in [the court's] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.""For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell," Thomas wrote.
44% : He noted that the pro-abortion faction attacking the state of Mississippi's new abortion limit cited "one source" for their claims: "the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee that no state shall 'deprive any persons of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.'"The majority opinion explains why under court precedents, "the purported right to abortion is not a form of 'liberty' protected by the Due Process Clause."
42% : In this case, he said, "That 50 years have passed since Roe and abortion advocates still cannot coherently articulate the right (or rights) at stake proves the obvious: The right to abortion is ultimately a policy goal in desperate search of a constitutional justification."
38% : Because the Due Process Clause does not secure any substantive rights, it does not secure a right to abortion."
37% : In his concurrence with the majority opinion, he explained, "Because the court properly applies our substantive due process precedents to reject the fabrication of a constitutional right to abortion, and because this case does not present the opportunity to reject substantive due process entirely, I join the court's opinion.
32% : Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 majority that the faulty Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 that created a "right" to abortion in the U.S. Constitution had to be overturned.

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