"The court has held that the rights to marry, engage in sexual intimacy, use birth control, and raise children are fundamental, but the rights to do business, commit suicide, and obtain abortion are not."
"understand the law. It's not just an opinion poll,"
"You know, what the court is trying to do is see what the American people have decided. And sometimes the American people have expressed themselves in the Constitution itself, which is our fundamental law. Sometimes in statutes,"
"But the court should not be imposing its own values on the American people. That's for the democratic process."
Amy Coney Barrett calls the right to marry fundamental while previously suggesting marriage policy should be decided state by state. She has been evasive during confirmation hearings about whether she would vote to overturn the decision that guaranteed abortion rights, and she later voted to overturn that decision in 2022. Barrett emphasizes that the court should not impose its own values and should seek to reflect what the American people have decided through the Constitution or statutes. Panelists at a National Conservatism Conference discussed the possible reversal of Obergefell v. Hodges, and the court’s 6–3 conservative majority raises expectations of future challenges to marriage equality.
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