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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same sex marriage is definitely next but interracial marriage will be allowed because it is so popular among voters. [/quote]
In this order:
Birth control
IVF
Interracial marriage
gay marriage[/quote]

SCOTUS can’t overturn any of these unless there is a challenge. I can see a GOP governor challenging Obergfell to try to get that to SCOTUS.  I don’t see a lot of political will to challenge birth control.   GOP may hate abortion, but its a small minority of the base who don’t use birth control.  Same with interracial marriage.  Maybe there are a lot of bigots among the RWNJ, but I just don’t see any state trying to reverse that anytime soon.[/quote]

I think you are underestimating the GOP.  It wouldn’t be a direct challenge to the right to access birth control, it would be very onerous restrictions on hormonal birth control on the grounds that it is an abortifacient and therefore prohibited under the state’s abortion ban.  Someone will challenge these restrictions to try to get them lifted, it will eventually make its way to SCOTUS, and then if the current majority (or a similar one) is in place, SCOTUS would go beyond ruling simply on the issue presented to hold that Griswold was wrongly decided and therefore is being overturned (just like they are presently doing with Roe).  Republicans will make the same noises they are now about how the ruling doesn’t actually ban anything, people will get complacent again if it doesn’t personally affect them, and red states will move forward with more bans on hormonal birth control, age restrictions on over-the-counter birth control, expand the ability of not just pharmacists but also store clerks to sell birth control products prop,e who can’t prove they are married if they are morally opposed to sex outside of marriage, etc.[/quote]

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