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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by dragonwriter on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:51AM (#31864146)
> This is the final chapter

No, its not.

The use of state power to exterminate trans people is the next chapter, and its already well under way. More broadly, much of the next series of chapters is using selective application of “religious liberty” to establish unique and particular entitlement for favored Christian groups across the board, by dismissing the sincerity of other beliefs and/or judging the burdens imposed on them by a different subjective standard in applying the “substantial burden” test than is applied on favored Christian beliefs.

Viewed even more broadly, the focus is on dismantling substantive anti-discrimination protections for non-favored groups extending beyond religion by similar means (as is the case for the above trends, we’ve already seen some elements of this, such as the judicial dismantling of much of the Voting Rights Act; but that is just the beginning, there is much more to come.)

EDIT: Heck, this isn’t even the end of this chapter, if one considers the way this is part of the integrated campaign against sexual and reproductive freedom and the right of privacy established in the line of cases running (through Roe) back to Griswold v. Connecticut, which are all under attack, and span issues beyond abortion to include contraception, same sex marriage, sodomy laws, etc.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:38PM (#31866354)
That.. seems excessively alarmist. It is on par with Sirius XM Channel channel reacting to the news by saying, and I am paraphrasing, 'they are going after all our rights next'.

I might agree in an abstract manner it is not a final chapter the same way just imposing red flag laws is not the end goal for gun control activists, but the paragraphs that follow are a little out there.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by dragonwriter on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:25PM (#31867163)
> That.. seems excessively alarmist.

Then you aren't paying attention to the actual legislation being passed in States, the advocacy of leading members of the Republican Party, and even the things explicitly stated in the writings of Supreme Court justices on this case.

> It is on par with Sirius XM Channel channel reacting to the news by saying, and I am paraphrasing, ‘they are going after all our rights next’.

Thomas literally (to anyone who understands the scope and impact of the Court’s substantive due process jurisprudence) said that in his concurrence.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday June 24, 2022 @03:28PM (#31868162)
It is possible. I am not an expert in this area so I do not pay it as close an attention is it may warrant. That said, can you provide any links that would confirm your statements? The little I know is about Kavanaugh and Barrett and neither is an extreme in their writings ( although there are some unflattering bios on the net ). Which SCOTUS member are you referring to?

edit re concurrence:

I am going through SCOTUS blog(1) and the actual text(2) and I am not seeing the same thing you do. Could you elaborate a little?

(1)https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/supreme-court-overturns-c... (2)https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf