With its decision to undermine the liberal right to abortion, the US Supreme Court caused horror around the world on Friday. But apparently the end of the road has not been reached with the highly controversial verdict. For example, conservative US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ended the right to in-room contraception alongside a possible end to marriages between gay couples.
“In future cases, we must review all substantive precedents of this court, including Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell,” Thomas wrote in his unanimous opinion on Roe’s ruling.
The justification, which seems rather cryptic to laymen, has the potential to cause as much excitement as the decision to stop abortion. Finally, in 1965, Griswold v. Connecticut established the right of married couples to use contraception without government intervention.
Just one guiding decision out of many?
In Lawrence v. Texas, the court ruled in 2003 that states could not criminalize bestiality, and in 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges established the right to marry for same-sex couples.
The abortion end announced today may mark the beginning, not the end, of a series of pivotal decisions by the predominantly conservative, right-wing US Supreme Court justices.
Thomas: Decisions “demonstrably flawed”
Thomas described the decisions on the now shaky rulings as “demonstrably flawed”. The Supreme Court would therefore have a duty to correct the “error” in these precedents, Thomas said. He further concludes that almost all other precedents based on the doctrine of “material legal protection” (as was the case with abortion) must also be quashed.
Further US Supreme Court rulings could not be less explosive.
Source: Krone
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