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Roe & Wade is based on the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Roe vs Wade did not happen in vacuum, it's part of a larger understanding of the Constitution that recognizes a right to privacy and recognizes that there are unwritten rights[1].

This decision overturns this whole 50-year old framework. Decisions based on 14th Amendment’s Due Process clause are now open for banning contraception, banning interracial relationships, family relationships, right to intimacy (sodomy laws), the right to personal control of medical treatment. It will even have data collection limit consequences.

Some states are even more radical than current SCOTUS. They have sodomy laws considered invalid that can be activated. How Dismantling Roe Puts Interracial Marriage at Risk https://www.aclu.org/podcast/how-dismantling-roe-puts-interr...

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[1]: The idea of unenumerated rights is clear and sound. The Ninth Amendment suggests that the rights enumerated in the Constitution do not exhaust “others retained by the people.”

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