Supreme Court opens door to overturning rights to relationships, marriages between same-sex couples

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Lawmakers in Idaho and Missouri last year discussed banning state funding for emergency contraception, and Idaho prevents public schools or universities from dispersing it.
50% : He added: "It means that you can't look to the Supreme Court as an impartial arbiter of constitutional rights because they're acting more as culture warriors."MORE: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, transforming abortion rights in USGostin and others pointed to a separate concurring opinion in which Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should review other precedents, including its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a 2003 decision striking down laws criminalizing gay sex and a 1965 decision declaring that married couples have a right to use contraception.
50% : "It's all interconnected, because at its base, birth control and abortion are both types of health care that help people have bodily autonomy," said Mara Gandal-Powers, director of birth control access for the National Women's Law Center, which supports abortion rights.
44% : Fertility experts sound alarm over Supreme Court decisionAbortion opponents celebrated the potential for states to ban abortion after nearly 50 years of being prevented from doing so.
43% : Some abortion opponents treat some forms of contraception as forms of abortion, particularly IUDs and emergency birth control such as Plan B, also known as the "morning after" pill.
41% : Today is about this horrifying invasion of privacy that this court is now allowing, and when we lose one right that we have relied on and enjoyed, other rights are at risk," said Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, who is now running as a Democrat for the Ohio House.
41% : A state-by-state breakdown of where abortion stands in your stateKristen Waggoner, legal director for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which helped defend the Mississippi abortion law at issue in the ruling, said the high court's decision makes it clear that "the taking of human life is unlike any other issue."
39% :"And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right," Alito wrote.
39% : She said raising other issues shows the weakness of critics' arguments about abortion.
39% : Still, said Paul Dupont, a spokesman for the conservative anti-abortion American Principles Project, conservatives are optimistic about the potential for future victories on cultural issues, though getting more states to ban abortion is "a huge enough battle."
38% : "Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."
37% :Jason Pierceson, a University of Illinois political scientist, said he doesn't see the conservative majority stopping with abortion.
33% : In the court's majority opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Justice Samuel Alito said the decision applied only to abortion.
22% : The U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing states to ban abortion stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry.

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