Kamala may be stretching it a bit because the right to privacy is guaranteed by the Constitution, the right to an abortion is not according to the Dobbs decision as written. That is all they tried to say. Abortion, according to DOBBS is a competing decision between the woman and the State on the decision on the fetus and therefore a legislature should be addressing it. The Court concedes that there is also nothing in the constitution that prohibits abortion.
One key issue is both the ROE and DOBBS courts recognize the interests of the State due to existence at some point of a fetus or baby depending your belief or science, which is a 3rd party. All other rights to privacy involve the person or people together and their decisions free from government intervention as long as no accepted laws are broken.
Therefore to say that this court will go after gay marriage or similar rights is a big stretch bordering on hyperbole and could backfire for the Dems. The DOBBS decision says:
None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey involved the critical moral question posed by abortion. They are therefore inapposite.
Other decisions refer to rights to privacy in marriage for example or who to marry. The Dobbs author says:
‘These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one's “concept of existence” prove too much. Casey, 505 U. S., at 851.
The Court is implicity recognizing the right to autonomy in decisions of marriage, procreation, child rearing etc... These simple sentences are basically upholding the precedent that this decision specifically addresses abortion and will do nothing to undo decades of precedent on establishing the right to privacy.
Therefore the Dems need to realize that claiming DOBBS will be precedent to undo gay marriages or other rights is just not true.
