Advocates for reproductive freedom and LGTBQ+ equality on Saturday pointed to a legal brief filed in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could soon overturn Roe v. Wade as a crucial example of the broader goals of those fighting to end abortion rights across the United States.

“ALL anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice views stem from the same desire to control bodies.”
—Zack Ford, Alliance for Justice

“It’s never just been about fetuses. It’s about controlling sex,” tweeted Muhlenberg College assistant professor Jacqueline Antonovich, a historian of health and medicine.

Both Antonovich and Elie Mystal, The Nation’s justice correspondent, responded to a portion of the brief flagged by New York University School of Law professor Melissa Murray that challenges previous rulings from the country’s highest court on not only abortion but also LGBTQ+ rights.

“Of course” the so-called “right to life” movement is also coming after cases that established key LGBTQ+ protections, said Mystal, “because it’s never about ‘life’ and always about ‘Christian fundamentalism.’”

Zack Ford of the progressive group Alliance for Justice said Saturday […]