If the Supreme Court overturns the abortion law based on Justice Samuel Alito's reasoning, other laws may be thrown out as well.
During an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday, Raskin was discussing the bombshell leak of the Supreme Court's draft majority opinion on abortion.
Alito wrote that "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start" and that it is time to return the issue of abortion to the states.
The basic legal claim is that the word abortion doesn't show up in the Constitution.
He went on to say that other laws and precedents protecting women's reproductive rights might be at risk, for instance, a couple's right to privacy over whether or not to use birth control.
The phrase "right to privacy" is not in the Constitution. This would appear to be an invitation to have, you know, anti-feminist regulation and legislation all over the country.
According to Justice Alito, there is no right to privacy, so the legislatures can do whatever they want.
If there is a move to pass a federal law that would categorically prohibit abortion, the only thing stopping them from doing that will be the votes in the House and the votes in the Senate.
The direction that the SCOTUS was moving in was given by Raskin.
The court will return to its historic baseline of being a reactionary conservative institution if it goes forward with it, he said.
Protesters on both sides of the issue gathered in a tense face-off outside the Supreme Court building after the draft was leaked.
Large swathes of the US could become illegal if the overturn of Wade happens. If the decision is passed, there will be laws in 13 states that will immediately outlaw abortion.
Democratic lawmakers are trying to push a bill that would codify abortion in law.
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