“Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” “Our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito wrote. The court’s majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, repeatedly insists that the justices’ decision to abandon Roe poses no threat to other precedents. Hodges and other cases “are all part of the same constitutional fabric,” the three justices continued, “protecting autonomous decisionmaking over the most personal of life decisions.” The court’s past rulings in Roe, Griswold v. “To the contrary, the Court has linked it for decades to other settled freedoms involving bodily integrity, familial relationships, and procreation.” The constitutional right to abortion “does not stand alone,” the three justices wrote. The court’s liberal wing - Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan - echoed those concerns in a dissenting opinion released on Friday, writing that “no one should be confident that this majority is done with its work.” “And the idea we’re letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions, would be a fundamental shift in what we’ve done.” A whole range of rights,” President Joe Biden said of the draft opinion at the time. “If the rationale of the decision as released were to be sustained, a whole range of rights are in question.
