On the same day that abortion-rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s new statute, Georgia-born U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas painted a graphic picture of the procedure in question and made clear his eagerness to revisit the precedent that makes it legal.

Thomas on Friday concurred with the court’s decision not to review an Alabama abortion law appeal. That denial lets stand the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s decision last year, which upheld a district judge who blocked enforcement of the law.