With the 6-3 ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has completely eliminated a right that women have had for five decades: The right to make her own reproductive and family planning decisions.
But in his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear that this is only the beginning of what the right-wingers on the high court have planned for the United States in the future.
Specifically, Thomas wrote:
“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 … After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”
Yes, the Supreme Court is now coming for other rights, meaning that millions of same-sex couples will suddenly find that their marriages declared null and void.
Also, the right to contraception will be curtailed, especially in states ruled by Republicans. Both men and women will no longer able to purchase birth control pills or condoms. There will be an explosion of unwanted pregnancies and births in the United States, driving us ever closer to Third World status.
There is, however, a way to counter what the court has done today: Democrats, Independents, and Republicans who value the Constitution must vote in November so that legislation can be passed that will guarantee all of these rights and place them beyond the control of the extremist judges on the Supreme Court.