At least Clarence Thomas's odious Dobbs concurrence was honest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The majority's response to this argument is that abortion is somehow a unique case: "rights regarding contraception and
49% : same-sex relationships are inherently different from the right to abortion because the latter (as we have stressed) uniquely involves what Roe and Casey termed 'potential life.'"
46% : But the fact that abortion raises questions about ending lives does not make it any more or less "deeply rooted in our history": it's an act of pure legal handwaving, an invention of a standard designed to escape the obvious consequences of his own logic.
39% : Abortion, he argues, does not pass this test.
35% : Thomas is arguing that such "unenumerated" rights are basically made up: not just the right to abortion protected in Roe, but also protections for birth control in Griswold v. Connecticut, same-sex sexual relations in Lawrence v. Texas, and same-sex marriage in Obergefell.
34% : But if abortion fails, it's hard to see how rights to same-sex marriage and contraception pass.
31% : It's also an argument that the liberal minority -- Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor -- make in their joint dissent: The lone rationale for what the majority does today is that the right to elect an abortion is not "deeply rooted in history": Not until Roe, the majority argues, did people think abortion fell within the Constitution's guarantee of liberty.
25% : In the Supreme Court's opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito writes that "nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."

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