Ilhan Omar called to 'expand the court' after the leaked decision made headlines, saying the current Supreme Court justices will 'not stop here. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that she believes the Supreme Court 'isn't just coming for abortion - they're coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on, which includes gay marriage + civil rights.' -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May 3, 2022
Wade is overturned.īut by undermining the constitutional justification for abortion by targeting unenumerated rights - constitutional rights that aren't explicit in the text but are implied - Democrats say the nation's highest court is setting up future legal fights to roll back other long-held constitutional rights.
Alito adds in the opinion that 'the cases on which Roe and Casey rely' are safe because none 'involved the critical moral question posed by abortion,' meaning the decisions to allow same-sex and interracial marriage, the right to contraception, prohibiting sterilization without consent would not be affected, even if Roe v.
