-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Wade nearly two years ago, there has been a chorus of people warning that it wouldn’t end with abortions — that the right to access contraception would be eroded next. Earlier this month, U.S.
legislators had a chance to codify access to birth control by passing the Right to Contraception Act . Specifically, it would have guaranteed the right of an individual "to obtain contraceptives and to voluntarily engage in contraception." The legislation also would have protected the right of licensed health care providers to provide contraceptives, services and information related to contraception.
" It also would have prohibited any laws that impede access to birth control. All but two Senate Republicans voted against it . The possibility of restricting access to birth control didn’t appear out of nowhere.
In Justice Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion on the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe, he opined that the Supreme Court should revisit precedents that codified same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships and the right to contraception. "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell," Thomas wrote in the opinion.
"Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous' ...
we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents." .
