Justice Clarence Thomas Says the Supreme Court Should, “Reconsider the Rulings That Protect Contraception, Same-sex Relationships, and Same-sex Marriage”

The Supreme Court has overturned the landmark ruling Roe V Wade, eliminating nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion.

The 5-4 decision will leave the issues of abortion up to state legislators, which will ultimately result in a total ban on the procedure in about half of the states.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito was joined in his opinion by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

In Friday’s ruling, Alito called Roe “egregiously wrong from the start”.

He said the Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion,” declaring that the decision should ultimately be left to the state to regulate.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.

“Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

The states that may implement total or near-total abortion restrictions include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court should “reconsider the rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.”

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.

“Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents,” he wrote.

Democrat-appointed Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.

“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,” they wrote.

At the same time, the court voted 6-3 to uphold a Mississippi law that bans all abortion past 15 weeks, with very few medical exceptions.

President Joe Biden has been briefed on the decision and is expected to address the nation later today.

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Source: the Sun