That case was sparked by the 1998 arrest of two gay men in Houston. In 2003, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision invalidating state laws that criminalized same-sex sexual activity, with the liberal-leaning majority at the time ruling that it violated the due-process clause. 'Lawrence' is a reference to the case Lawrence v. In his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said his colleagues 'should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.' In their 6-3 ruling, the court's conservative majority argued there was no explicit mention of abortion in the Constitution and that the right to terminate a pregnancy was not enshrined in the 14th Amendment, which asserts that no state may 'deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.'
Wade and eliminate the constitutionally protected right to abortion has sparked questions about whether conservative justices will seek to overturn other precedents based on the constitutional right to privacy. The US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v.
