A draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade has progressives fearing the conservative majority could use the same reasoning to target LGBTQ, contraceptive and other rights.
Other protections grounded in the rights given by the U.S. Constitution to privacy could be vulnerable to the same argument that they’re not "deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,” as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his draft opinion published Monday by Politico that would overturn the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade and 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions. The Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft in a statement Tuesday.
The opinion’s disapproval of a broad understanding of a constitutional right to privacy implicates a host of others — from sexual relations to marriage to procreation, legal scholars said.
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