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LGBTQ advocate Jim Obergefell fears other rights are at risk with Roe overturned JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Now that Roe vs. Wade has been overturned, many people are concerned about what other established rights could disappear next. But in a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the legal rational for last week's decision could be applied to reconsider other landmark …

Within hours of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, abortion was banned in 13 states when so-called trigger laws went into effect. In the days and weeks after the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the previously unimaginable recriminalization of gay sex and the loss of my right to marry felt chillingly possible. …

Hearing threat to Roe vs. Wade, I thought of my gay marriage — and Jim Obergefell’s fight

Jim Obergefell, left, and John Arthur are married by officiant Paulette Roberts, rear center, in a plane on the tarmac at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport near Baltimore in 2013. In his draft decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is the name of the case challenging Roe, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. argues that the Roe ruling in …

Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House after President Trump announced her nomination to the Supreme Court on Sept. 26 in Washington. If and when the Senate Judiciary Committee questions Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, senators are expected to ask her about whether she accepts Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling legalizing abortion, …