Out in the Bay: Why everyone should care about Supreme Court abortion cases
LGBTQ civil rights may indeed be threatened by abortion cases now before the conservative-heavy U.S. Supreme Court. Along with abortion rights, the right to marry whomever we want, to have sex in any manner and with whomever (consenting adult!) we like, to use a condom or other protection or birth control, and to have gender-affirming surgery also may be at risk.
Until recently, it seemed it had been many years since our most basic rights were being debated in the U.S. Supreme Court. Not anymore.
Abortion rights are under attack in a way they have not been for decades, and federal courts journalist Lisa Keen told Out in the Bay — Queer Radio + Podcast guest host Christopher Beale this week that those attacks also jeopardize LGBTQ rights.
Keen said, "personal bodily integrity" is what's on the line. It's a term we may hear a lot more this year. In December, the justices heard arguments in Dobbs v.
