LGBTQ2 people will face disproportionate impacts if Roe v. Wade is overturned: experts
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Members of the LGBTQ2 community will be disproportionately impacted should the United States Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, experts say.
Members of the LGBTQ2 community will be disproportionately impacted should the United States Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, experts say.
“Abortion care is part of wrap-around sexual health education and care that is essential to the well-being of LGBTQ2S+ people, whether they become pregnant or not,” Dr. Shannon Dea, dean of the faculty of arts at the University of Regina told Global News. “Limit that care and you imperil their well-being.”
A leaked initial majority draft opinion, first reported Monday by Politico, suggests the court has voted to overturn the decision that legalized abortion nationwide — and it has since caused public outcry.
Aside from abortion, conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the draft, also criticized notable American civil rights cases including Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized marriage equality.
“None of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history,” he said.
Alito’s opinion resembles his dissent in the court’s same-sex marriage ruling in which he said the 14th Amendment’s due process promise protects only rights deeply rooted in America’s history and tradition.
“And it is beyond dispute that the right to same-sex marriage is not among those rights,” Alito wrote in his 2015 dissent.
The draft is “unconscionable,” according to Ontario NDP candidate Jill Andrew, the first openly queer and Black person elected in any legislature across Canada.