President Joe Biden said Wednesday that LGBTQ students might be banned from classrooms if the leaked draft opinion overturning the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade were allowed to stand.
Biden spoke about the issue in the wake of Monday’s unprecedented leak of the early opinion draft — which Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed was authentic — and argued that any right predicated on the implicit right to privacy would be next on the chopping block if that were the Court’s final decision.
Biden began by mentioning an earlier case, Griswold v. Connecticut, wherein the Court ruled that married couples, under that implicit right to privacy, could buy and use contraceptives without government intrusion.
“Griswold was thought to be a bad decision by Bork, and my guess is, the guys on the Supreme Court now,” Biden said. “What happens if you have — state changes the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children?”