The United States of Paralysis - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Two decades later, it was affirmed, with some adjustments, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a case in which all five justices in the majority were Republican appointees.
54% : More recently, the court had included under the privacy umbrella the legal right of same-sex adults to intimate relations in the privacy of the bedroom (2003), and the opportunity for gay and lesbian couples to marry (2015) and enjoy the benefits thereof.
51% : For half a century or so, the court had held that such a right covered interracial marriage (1967), the ability of married (1965) and unmarried (1972) couples to obtain and use contraception, and legal access to abortion (1973).
50% : We saw that again on Thursday when the US Supreme Court severely restricted the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
46% : Nor is it the American public's view of abortion or the other rights covered by the concept of constitutional protection of privacy.
41% : Meanwhile, one of the court's most radical conservatives, Clarence Thomas, is calling on his colleagues to reconsider constitutional protections for contraception, gay sexual relations, and same-sex marriage.
34% : Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs, tried to erect a limiting principle for why his anti-Roe-rights reasoning won't extend to other privacy rights: Abortion involves potential life, while the other matters don't.

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