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After Roe v Wade's fall, a Supreme Court justice indicates that same-sex marriage and contraception could be next
Jun 26, 2022 1 min, 49 secs

After Roe v Wade's fall, a Supreme Court justice indicates that same-sex marriage and contraception could be next.

When the US Supreme Court dramatically overturned the right of Americans to terminate a pregnancy, one justice was particularly fervent.

"The constitution does not confer a right to abortion," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion, echoing his colleagues' sentiments. .

During his confirmation hearing in 1991, then-judge Thomas was cagey about his position on Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that protected Americans' right to abortion for nearly 50 years. .

Buried on page 119 of the final opinion, Justice Thomas wrote the court "should reconsider" other past rulings that afford Americans certain rights. .

"That's because, in part, the right to an abortion was not something that the people who wrote the 14th amendment would have thought about at the time it was passed in the mid-19th century," Ms Karteron said. 

But the ruling — and Justice Thomas's opinion in particular — has rattled many legal observers

"Justice Thomas and his concurring opinion expressly said that the court should revisit a number of other due process cases that implicate deeply important issues like the right to same-sex marriage, the right to be in a same-sex relationship without facing criminalisation, the right to access birth control," Ms Karteron said. 

"We absolutely should be concerned that in the future, the court will revisit those precedents, in part because Justice Thomas has told us that that is what he would like to see happen," Ms Karteron said. 

As a black man, Justice Thomas's own marriage to Ginni Thomas is recognised in the US because of the precedent set by Loving v Virginia. 

Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff behind the court's landmark ruling on same-sex marriage, told US media he found it "quite telling" Loving v Virginia was left out of Justice Thomas's opinion

His presidential successor, Joe Biden, said Justice Thomas had put America on an "extreme and dangerous path". 

Ms Karteron, who described Justice Thomas as "extremely conservative", said he has made his position clear. 

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