US transportation secretary says supreme court’s ruling could determine future generations’ freedoms
, the US transportation secretary and the first openly gay member of a US administration, has expressed his worry that the expected overturning by the supreme court of the 1973 landmark decision which made abortion legal, may be the start of a series of eliminations of other groundbreaking rights and protections.
nearly 50 years ago. The provisional ruling could lead to abortion being outlawed in more than half of US states unless it is changed substantially before becoming final.“It’s been 50 years since we first had this framework – my entire lifetime. So if something as essential as a woman’s right to decide about her healthcare is up for reversal, then any number of other rights and protections could be next,” he told the Guardian.
His husband, Chasten, said on Twitter it would “kill kids” and make the state “a harder place for LGBTQ kids to survive in”.
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