Now that abortion care is no longer protected by the U.S. constitution, many Americans are wondering where their bodily autonomy stands — and if the Supreme Court keeps to its word, Roe V. Wade is just the beginning.
By overturning the right to abortion, the Supreme Court has placed the fundamental right to privacy articulated in the Fourteenth Amendment under scrutiny. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has already stated that rulings surrounding contraception and gay rights should be reconsidered, citing protections granted by the decisions in Griswold vs. Connecticut, Lawerence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges, which gave married couples the right to contraceptives, the right to engage in private sexual acts and the right to same-sex marriage, respectively.
