In the wake of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, written by Justice Samuel Alito, upholding Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy and overturning both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, effectively eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, many reasonably would be wondering about what’s next on the chopping block?

In his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas expressly invited such speculation when he wrote that the court should reconsider all of its “substantive due process precedents,” including Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 decision that established the right to same-sex intimacy, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.