![]() "Think of someone telling you that the Jenga tower simply will not collapse," the dissenting justices wrote, referring to a game involving precariously stacked wooden blocks. They advised the public to be skeptical of the court majority's assertion that the ruling should not be read to cast doubt on other precedents "that do not concern abortion." ![]() We "cannot understand how anyone can be confident that today's opinion will be the last of its kind," the liberal justices wrote. These precedents safeguarded an array of personal freedoms including contraception in a 1965 decision, interracial marriage in 1967, same-sex intimacy in 2003 and gay marriage in 2015. Constitution's 14th Amendment, which prevents states from infringing liberties without "due process of law." They also spelled out the threat posed by the ruling to other rights that the court has recognized in decisions over the decades under a legal principle called "substantive due process" arising from the U.S. ![]() The court's three liberals, in a lengthy joint dissent, condemned the ruling as "catastrophic" and legally flawed - one that would let states force a woman to bring a pregnancy to term, and in some states, "to bear her rapist's child." Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Supreme Court's decision erasing the constitutional right to abortion provides a roadmap to end other freedoms involving marriage, sexuality and birth control, its three liberal members said on Friday, while conservative Justice Clarence Thomas urged the court to take just that path.įriday's 5-4 ruling, authored by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, overturned the 1973 Roe v. ![]()
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