Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas argues that the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling on make same-sex marriage in the United States is "clearly wrong" following the controversial decision of the highest court to overturn Roe v. Wade that offered protections for women getting abortions.
The Republican lawmaker said that similar to Roe v. Wade, the same-sex marriage ruling, known as Obergefell v. Hodges, ignored two centuries of the country's history. The official's remarks were shown in a clip posted on his YouTube channel for his podcast.
Same-Sex Marriage
He said that marriage has always been an issue that was left to the states to decide, arguing that before Obergefell, some states were moving to allow gay marriage, and other states were moving to allow civil partnerships.
Cruz, who is a longtime opponent of same-sex marriage, believes that the issue should be left to states, whose remarks echoed the views expressed by many conservatives in the country. This includes Justice Clarence Thomas, who believes that the Supreme Court should revisit past rulings such as Obergefell v. Hodges, as per CNN.
Last month, Thomas made a separate opinion where he explicitly called for the Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier rulings striking down state restrictions on contraceptives, state sodomy bans, and state prohibitions on same-sex marriage.
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Cruz acknowledged that if the Supreme Court does overrule Obergefell v. Hodges, it would lead to massive legal complications. He said that it would be a "little chaotic" if the court decided to do something about existing same-sex marriages.
According to the New York Post, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion overturning Roe that "we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Justice Brett Kavanaugh also added that nothing in the opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
Controversial Ruling
The situation comes as abortion has become a hot topic in the United States as others have argued that the decision endangers the lives of many women in the nation. Mae Winchester, a specialist in maternal-fetal medicine in Ohio, said that people were "running scared."
She sought legal advice days after the state's new restrictions went into effect before performing an abortion on a pregnant woman with a uterine infection. The medical expert said that there were still a lot of unknowns following the Supreme Court's decision.
However, it is not unusual for a need to intervene in pregnancy with the same medication or surgical procedure used in elective abortions. There are as many as 30% of pregnancies that end in miscarriage, the spontaneous demise of a fetus, commonly because of chromosomal abnormalities.
The methods of managing a miscarriage are the same as for abortion, which uses a combination of drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, or a brief surgery known as dilation and curettage, or D&C, to dilate the cervix and scrape tissue from the uterus.
If left untreated, some miscarriages resolve naturally while others lead up to complications such as infection or profuse bleeding that could endanger the lives of the mother that is carrying the fetus, the Washington Post reported.
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