No, contraception and same-sex marriage are not on the chopping block

Within a matter of weeks, roughly half of the 50 states will likely ban or severely restrict abortion. We know this to be true because, for the half-century that Roe v. Wade reigned supreme, every Republican in a safely red state told us so.

Now, the Supreme Court has democratized the abortion question, returning the issue that remained in an effectively 50-50 deadlock for 50 years to the states as the Constitution intended.

The same people who brought us half a decade of apoplectic panic about Russia/Facebook/Republicans directly murdering American democracy are now in, well, an apoplectic panic about democracy. They don't like that an unelected body has returned this issue back to the voters and their elected representatives. To save face, they argue that the court will, on the same bases, do things that the public is far less likely to accept — to reverse the 60-year-old precedent on contraception and the more recent Obergefell v. Hodges decision on marriage equality.