Could Roe’s Collapse Mean Everything is Up for Grabs?

By Jessica Washington, The Root

Legal experts say the Roe decision could spell the end for many rights Americans have come to rely on.

The Supreme Court closed out this session with a metaphorical bang, upending fifty years of court precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade, the case establishing the constitutional right to an abortion.

In the wake of this seismic decision, we reached out to legal experts to figure out what the Supreme Court might do next, the answer, anything.

What is terrifying to me is that they took the biggest issue and just did away with it first,” says Meg York, a family law attorney at Vermont Law School’s South Royalton Legal Clinic.

York says that any of the Supreme Court cases that rely on substantive due process, which protects implied fundamental rights like the right to privacy (abortion is considered a privacy right) and the right to marriage, could be up for grabs…

What’s worse, is that Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly called for overturning several of these substantive due process cases in his opinion, including Obergefell v. Hodges, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Lawrence v. Texas.

Discover why some people are so concerned about future SCOTUS decisions.

It’s frustrating because we just celebrated 55 years of legalized interracial marriage, a precedent set by SCOTUS. Some people even believe we should do away with the Supreme Court entirely.

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