U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made clear in his concurring opinion regarding the overturning of Roe v. Wade that the high court has no intention of stopping its rollback of Americans’ rights, naming cases that centered on marriage equality and the right to obtain contraception as previous rulings that should be revisited.
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It does not end at abortion. Republicans will not stop until they have stripped away every freedom they can’t load with bullets. Rahna Epting, MoveOn Executive Director.
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Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer in dissent:
The lone rationale for what the majority does today is that the right to elect an abortion is not ‘deeply rooted in history.’
The same could be said, though, of most of the rights the majority claims it is not tampering with… So one of two things must be true. Either the majority does not really believe in its own reasoning. Or if it does, all rights that have no history stretching back to the mid-19th century are insecure. Either the mass of the majority’s opinion is hypocrisy, or additional constitutional rights are under threat. It is one or the other.
via CommonDreams.org
