'At a time when anti-LGBTQ laws are being passed all over the country, the Supreme Court's ‘Dobbs’ decision is a terrible development,' writes CathrenCohen
decision must be overturned because it relied on rights that are not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
That reasoning could be used to attack other fundamental rights which rely on the principles that supported the right to abortion—including the right to privacy, the right to access and use contraception, the right to engage in same-sex sexual conduct, the right to be free from sterilization by the government, and even the right to enter an interracial or same-sex marriage.
In fact, in a separate concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas specifically calls for future cases to “reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including[,]” the decisions protecting birth control access, invalidating anti-sodomy laws, and finding a right to marriage equality.
But the idea that LGBTQ rights are next is not correct, because the assault on LGBTQ rights is already here. This is evidenced not only in the
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