'The Dobbs decision demonstrates a willingness by the Court’s conservative majority to overturn long-standing precedent.' Post-Dobbs, the Supreme Court is posed to erode other women's rights. CarrieNBaker in our Spring issue, on how we can fight back:
justified its finding that there was no history and tradition of abortion rights in the United States by presenting a 30-page list of 19th-century laws prohibiting abortion. One could make an even longer list of past laws enforcing women’s second-class status in American history—such as laws barring women from voting, serving on juries, running for public office, pursuing professions such as law and medicine, securing credit in their own name and more.
However, Chemerinsky believes the conservative majority on the Court is likely to uphold more laws that negatively impact women’s equality rights, particularly in the context of marriage. For example,decision, which struck down a Pennsylvania law requiring wives to notify their husbands in order to obtain an abortion.
An abortion-rights activist at a march to the White House on July 9, 2022, to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end federal abortion rights protections. , which urges the Court to reconsider other long-standing precedents such as the right to sexual privacy and to contraception. “Thomas’ concurrence is an invitation to conservatives to begin to experiment at the state level on a variety of laws,” she warned.
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