Why The Supreme Court Decision Might Be A "Blaring Red Alert" For Same-Sex Marriage And Contraception Rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : He then expressly named the cases that guaranteed the rights to contraception, same-sex relations, and same-sex marriage -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), Lawrence v. Texas (2003), and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), respectively -- as being appropriate for the court to "reconsider" given they relied on similar reasoning.
45% : "I would honestly be lying if I said I weren't afraid that it could all go away," Obergefell said of the LGBTQ civil rights he helped ensure thanks to his role as lead plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
41% : In his separate opinion concurring with the majority that there was no constitutional right to abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should reconsider all the cases that previously established those rights.
38% : But when he read Justice Clarence Thomas's opinion that threatened to undo marriage equality, he felt scared for himself.
38% : "Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."
36% : In a passage blasting jurisprudence around the 14th Amendment, Thomas said abortion was not a form of "liberty" protected under the due process clause.
30% : Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito accused the liberal justices of using their dissent to potentially "stoke unfounded fear" that the ruling would imperil these other rights, arguing they were different because they did not concern "potential life.""To ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right," Alito wrote.
29% : In their searing dissent in Friday's abortion case, the three liberal justices warned that, in addition to vaporizing federal abortion rights, the top US court was also threatening the future of things like the right to contraception, same-sex relations, and same-sex marriage.

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