Jim Obergefell slams Supreme Court’s threat to overturn same-sex marriage rights after Roe

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Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, has slammed Justice Clarence Thomas’ footnote in today’s majority court opinion overturning abortion rights.

Thomas wrote that, even though the Constitution doesn’t explicitly mention abortion rights, the Supreme Court “erroneously” decided in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to treat abortion as a fundamental right that should be free from government interference, something known in legal terms as “substantive due process.”

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Thomas wrote, “We should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents. We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents… For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold [the case that granted the right to contraception]  Lawrence [the case that struck down anti-sodomy laws], and Obergefell [the case that legalized marriage equality].”

In response, Obergefell made a statement, saying, “Clarence Thomas is a…

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