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Does the overturning of Roe v Wade signal a vulnerability of other privacy rights - such as same sex marriage rights, LBGTQ rights, and contraception?
Yes. Although Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion repeatedly insisted that overturning a constitutional right to abortion had no implication for other rights, his opinion maintained that the court would protect rights not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution only if that right had a pedigree that dated to at least the Civil War, if not the American Revolution, or even the thirteenth century. Most contemporary privacy rights lack that pedigree.
