Americans should fear what comes next, the three dissenting justices wrote Friday in excoriating the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning nearly 50 years of abortion precedent.
Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan said if Roe v. Wade can be overturned, there’s little safety for rights to contraception, to same-sex marriage, or even to interracial marriage.
They said they held “sorrow” for both the Supreme Court itself and “for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection.”
“The Court’s precedents about bodily autonomy, sexual and familial relations, and procreation are all interwoven — all part of the fabric of our constitutional law, and because that is so, of our lives.