Roe is based on the 14th amendment, as are decisions like Obergefell v Hodges on same-sex marriage, Loving v Virginia on interracial marriage, and Lawrence v Texas on consensual sex. Justice Samuel Alito, in his draft decision, argues that Roe is a faulty law. “If this opinion becomes the opinion of the court, Griswold is imperiled – no question,” said Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director for the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. And the supreme court decision underpinning the right to access contraception, Griswold v Connecticut, could also come under fire in much the same way as Roe did.
Laws broadly banning abortion may also prohibit certain forms of birth control that opponents incorrectly say are working as abortion-causing medications.
