With Roe v. Wade gone, Chicago's LGBTQ+ community worries their rights could be next

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : McIntyre says same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ rights based on privacy, could be next.
51% : In a concurring opinion delivered Friday, Thomas suggested that the logic used by the court's conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey could signal similar outcomes for cases that recognized other personal rights: Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges.
46% : And in Obergefell, in 2015, the court ruled same-sex couples have an equal right to marry.
40% : Thomas argued that since the majority ruled that the right to abortion "is not a form of 'liberty' protected by the Due Process Clause" of the 14th Amendment, the same reasoning should apply more broadly.
40% : That first domino was the SCOTUS ruling Friday on abortion rights - which will not change the law in Illinois, but does allow states to ban abortion.
38% : Colleen Connell, executive director with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said contraceptive and same-sex marriage rights are at the most risk of being overturned given Justice Thomas' remarks about the Obergefell and Griswold decisions.
24% : As the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and eliminated a federal constitutional right to abortion Friday, Justice Clarence Thomas urged his colleagues to reevaluate other landmark cases protecting contraceptive access, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriages.

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