A draft Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade has progressives fearing the conservative majority could use the same reasoning to target LGBTQ, contraceptive, and other rights.
Other protections grounded in a constitutional right to privacy could be vulnerable to the same argument that they’re not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition,” as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his draft opinion published Monday by Politico that would overturn the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe and 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decisions. The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft in a statement Tuesday.
The opinion’s disapproval of ...