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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat happens to Griswold v. Connecticut?
Does legal access to birth control also go back to the state legislatures?
Is this the great unwinding?
Loving v. Virginia?
Obergefell v. Hodges?
Lawrence v. Texas?
elleng
(130,753 posts)But make no mistake, they'll come for those decisions too.
Frasier Balzov
(2,639 posts)Only incrementally.
To the best of my recollection, those were not unanimous opinions.
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Pretty much an open door to states to assume they wont be upheld.
elleng
(130,753 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Frasier Balzov
(2,639 posts)Alito's rhetoric in doing so is to give cold comfort as to why those decisions are "safe" from being thrown out accordingly.
elleng
(130,753 posts)Frasier Balzov
(2,639 posts)elleng
(130,753 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Part of it:
is in precedent. Casey relied on cases involving the right to marry a person ofa different race, Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1(1967); the right to marry while in prison, Turnerv. Saftey, 482 U. S. 78 (1987); the right to obtain contracep- tives, Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), Eisen- stadt v. Baird, 405 U. S. 438 (1972), Carey v. Population Services International, 431 U. S. 678 (1977); the righttore- side with relatives, Moore v. Fast Cleveland, 431 U. S. 494 1977); the right to make decisions about the education of one's children, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510 (1925), Meyerv. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390 (1925); the right not to be sterilized without consent, Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson, 316 U. S. 535 (1942); and the right in certain circumstances not to undergo involuntary surgery, forced administration of drugs, or other substantially simi. lar procedures, Winston v. Lee, 470 U. S. 753 (1985), Wash- ington. Harper, 494 U. S. 210 (1990), Rochin.v. California, 342 U. S. 165 (1952). Respondents and the Solicitor Gen eral also rely on post-Casey decisions like Lawrence v.
Texas, 539 U. S. 558 (2008) (right to engage in private, con- sensual sexual acts), and Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. 644 (2015) (right to marry a person of the same sex). See Brieffor Respondents 18; Brieffor United Statesas Amicus Curiae 23-24.
These attempts tojustify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one's concept of existence prove too much. Casey, 505 U. S., at 851. Those criteria, at a high level of generality, could license funda. mental rights to illicit drug use, prostitution, and the like. See Compassion in Dying v. Washington, 85 F.3d 1140, 1444 (CA9 1996) (O'Scannlain, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc). None ofthese rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history. Id., at 1440, 1445.
TwilightZone
(25,428 posts)Some of them were specifically mentioned in the draft.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216649121
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,907 posts)They make that clear in this leaked decision.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,730 posts)This is where the US Supreme Court wants to take us post Roe.
We will NOT go back without a fight.
bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)Scrivener7
(50,918 posts)iemanja
(53,016 posts)This is eerily like Gilead.