As Mashable previously reported, the ruling "stems from the right to privacy guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause." That means the Court's decision has undermined the U.S.'s right to privacy, which, as Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project previously told Mashable "has played a role in protecting everything from the right to contraceptives to the right to same-sex marriage."Īnd it's true: In Justice Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion (Opens in a new tab), he wrote that the Court "should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell." Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell are the rulings that decided the rights of contraception, same-sex sexual contact, and same-sex marriage, respectfully. Privacy experts warn that this new decision is an attack on Americans' right to privacy because the right to abortion and the right to privacy are connected through the Roe v.
The decision will also likely affect your privacy, the need for abortion funds and reproductive justice networks, and even the porn you watch. This could lead to hundreds of preventable pregnancy-related deaths across the country, NBC News reported in May (Opens in a new tab). Now, reproductive rights will be decided by states, half of which are expected to place bans on the medical procedure, according to the Associated Press (Opens in a new tab). It didn't come as much of a surprise after a draft written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked earlier this year. The 6 to 3 majority decision landed down the political lines of the justices. How to help abortion funds and reproductive justice networks
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