“Overturning Roe and Casey and allowing states to ban abortion access – including with no exception as some states are ready to do – will have devastating consequences for women and for anyone who can become pregnant as well as for the children they already have, for their health, and for their abilities to support themselves & their loved ones. Those consequences will fall hardest on people and families of color and those with the fewest financial resources.

Our community – and especially transgender people–are already under fierce attack. Right now, we are seeing grave assaults to people’s basic liberties across the board — from denying reproductive freedom to the passage of school censorship laws to efforts to criminalize established, life-saving healthcare for transgender adolescents. We must stand with all our communities and to fight these attacks head-on. 

Attacks on Roe & Casey are akin to government efforts banning or limiting transgender health care & controlling the lives of those facing historical discrimination – women, people of color, LGBTQ people. 

While we should all be concerned with the statements made by Justice Thomas in his consenting opinion concerning the previous rulings that declared sodomy laws and marriage bans unconstitutional, to be clear, Obergefell does not fall with the reversal of Roe and Casey. Marriage equality remains the law of the land. 

These threats against our most basic liberties are politically extreme and an outrageous affront to our values of individual freedom and justice for all. We must be engaged at every level – including in our state and federal legislatures and in the courts – to protect the rights our communities depend on. 

We will fight for abortion access and reproductive choice, the right for transgender people to access life-saving healthcare, the rights of LGBTQ students and students with LGBTQ families to be welcomed and included in schools. 

We need to push back on any decision that seeks to strip away cherished rights. Whether contraception, parental rights, sexual intimacy or marriage, these are among our basic liberties and the Court has no reason to disrupt our right to make these decisions for ourselves. 

It also becomes clear that as more of these decisions move back to states to be decided, that we redouble our efforts to ensure that we elect pro-equality officials at all levels of government who will pass laws that protect all of us from discrimination, guarantee access to healthcare and respect individual rights.”

-Jeff Graham, Executive Director

Georgia Equality