Sotomayor Says Abortion Case Imperils LGBTQ Rights
Demonstrators in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1.
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Supreme Court justices asked whether a ruling in favor of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban could call into question other seemingly settled constitutional rights, from the use of contraception, to the criminalization of sodomy, to the more recently recognized right to same-sex marriage.
A majority of the justices signaled at argument Wednesday that they will curtail or even overturn the court’s landmark rulings governing the right to an abortion, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, even though they’ve been the law of the land for decades.