Advocates worry other rights at risk if court overturns Roe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% :Obergefell is different from Roe in that hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples have relied on it to wed and created legal bonds, like shared property, inheritance rights and "settled expectations about the future," said Teresa Collett, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and director of its Prolife Center.
47% : Until now, the court has allowed states to regulate but not ban abortion before the point of viability, around 24 weeks.
47% :Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said that "what comes through loud and clear in the draft" is that the agenda "is not just to get rid of abortion but to ban contraception, to eliminate all the important progress that we've made about LGBTQ rights, about the rights of trans children, and also about racial equality."AP writer Chris Megerian in Washington contributed to this report.
45% : It stands in contrast to abortion, which is usually "a response to unplanned circumstances," Collett said.
45% : The current Supreme Court abortion case specifically concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks -- before the "viability" standard set in the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which itself moved beyond Roe's initial trimester framework for regulating abortion.
45% :Critics could also take a page from the anti-abortion playbook, which involved multiple measures over the decades that tackled the issue from different angles, imposed limits rather than sweeping prohibitions and employed unusual strategies like the civil-enforcement mechanism that's already essentially allowed Texas to ban abortion, said Alison Gash, a professor at the University of Oregon.
43% : "We emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right," the draft states.
42% : It's not going to end with abortion," said Mini Timmaraju, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
41% : But uncertainty abounds about ripple effects as the court nears a final opinion expected to overturn the landmark 1973 case that created a nationwide right to abortion.
41% : Cases like Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down sodomy laws criminalizing same-sex intimacy, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized gay marriage, are based at least in part on that same right to privacy.
40% : "It's starting with abortion.
39% : And it says abortion doesn't meet that standard.
38% : "Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."
38% : At arguments in December, all six conservative justices signaled they would uphold the Mississippi law, and five asked questions suggesting they supported overturning the right to abortion nationwide, leaving the issue up to individual states.
38% : A challenge to same-sex marriage could come before the high court on religious liberty grounds, for example, such as someone arguing their religious faith prevents them from recognizing same-sex marriage.
37% : Alito, in the draft opinion, explicitly states that the court is only targeting the right to abortion, not those other matters.
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28% : Cases along those lines have been mostly about exceptions to anti-discrimination laws so far, Pierceson said, "but one could see potentially a broadening of the argument to the fact that maybe same-sex marriage laws are unconstitutional in the first place."
14% : "This is about a lot more than abortion," President Joe Biden warned Wednesday, saying the court's draft opinion could jeopardize same-sex marriage, access to contraception and LGBTQ rights.

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