Draft Roe v. Wade ruling sends panic through LGBTQ community: ‘They’re coming for us next’

SF Chronicle ^ | 5.3.2022 | Dustin Gardiner

[libh8er]

SACRAMENTO — If the “right to privacy” that courts have ruled is provided by the U.S. Constitution were a home, Roe v. Wade would be the foundation and subsequent rulings enshrining LGBTQ rights would be akin to the floors built above.

LGBTQ activists and legal scholars say that’s why the revelation that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the historic case protecting abortion rights, sent a wave of panic through the community as many question whether rulings protecting same-sex marriage and consensual sexual acts could be targeted next.

“If the foundation of a house crumbles, the whole house is threatened,” said Samuel Garrett-Pate, a spokesperson for Equality California, an LGBTQ advocacy group. “The court is clearly telegraphing exactly where they plan to go next.”

A draft opinion leaked to Politico revealed that the court’s conservative majority is preparing to repeal Roe v. Wade, though it has not issued a formal ruling yet. The draft ruling, if made official, would allow individual states to decide whether to ban the procedure.

The situation led many in the LGBTQ community to question if overturning such a foundational section of privacy law in the United States could lead to a patchwork of laws in Republican states that roll back the community’s rights.

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“I’ll be honest, we are living in very, very scary times,” he said of the Roe v. Wade draft opinion.

Wiener, who is gay, stepped up his warnings in a series of tweets, likening the situation to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian book and TV drama about a fanatical religious government that kills queer people and enslaves women to bear children.

“They’re coming for us next,” Wiener wrote. “They’ll stop at nothing to make us second-class citizens & push us back into the shadows.”

[AmericanMermaid]

A baby should have Equal Protection. If a drunk driver injures a pregnant woman and her unborn baby dies, he is held responsible for that death, but the abortion clinic gets off Scott free. Equal Protection means nothing.

[NetAddicted]

I saw homosexuals marching against abortion at SCOTUS today on Fox.

[NetAddicted]

I don’t remember the verse, but Jesus validated all the commsndments, of which Leviticus 20:13 is a commandment.

[rottweiller_inc]

You know I remember the arguments whatever is that case in Texas about whether homosexuality should be outlawed and the homosexual activist at the time are saying that the Supreme Court should stay out of the bedroom. How far we have come because now they’ve gone from being in the bedroom to being in the classroom and proving everything, the worst of everything,that the critics were saying at the time.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Friggen drama queens and narcissists. Even if it’s just about killing babies, of course it’s about them.

But yeah, hopefully for you big mouths and any that want to mess with others’ kids, your one-way helicopter rides are on the way. Or maybe like Iran with quick roof to lobby trips.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Sounds like Islam....