Read this.

Do y’all know what rights the substantive due process clause of the 14th Amendment protects? I’ll list them for you.

  • Contraception
  • Marriage
  • Abortion
  • Family relations
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Private Education
  • Obscene Materials
  • Right to die (to refuse medical procedures)
  • Right to travel (freely from state to state)
  • Right to vote
  • Medical records

Did y’all know that in today’s opinion (which I read in full), Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurrence, “we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents.”

That is a direct quote

So, no matter which side of the abortion line you stand on, those are the rights you stand to lose from this decision. And it’s not an exaggeration, it was said by a SCOTUS Justice.

In the dissent [Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan] write, “one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s right, and of their status as free and equal citizens.”

They further write, “And no one should be confident that this majority is done with its work.”

What a sad day for America.

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June 26, 2022

I have written 3 notes and can’t seem to get out what I am trying to express.  I am so afraid for my granddaughters and eventually their daughters.  And my daughter’s friend and her friend’s wife if things go south with gay marriage and so many things thousands worked to obtain just snatched away.  Cirese’s daughter Whitney is married to her wife Veronica.  There are just so many impacted so close to home.  There is a big protest march opposing the decision just breaking up in downtown Phoenix.  Well written entry!

June 26, 2022

I just can’t believe it.  We are slipping into The Handmaid’s Tale before our very eyes.