article_snippet.sent: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a fervent supporter of abortion rights for women, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has expressed reservations about the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts's decision in Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that required all 50 states to legalize abortion.
article_snippet.sent: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has argued that the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts interrupted a political process for legalization that was already underway, and that the case ignited a backlash that wound up hurting the cause of abortion rights.
article_snippet.sent: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg position is debatable on several scores.
article_snippet.sent: But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's misgivings about Roe have served as an important backdrop to the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts consideration of same-sex marriage.
article_snippet.sent: In a brief dissenting opinion from the failure to grant the stays, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the issue had already been settled in the minds of Justice Clarence Thomas colleagues.
article_snippet.sent: This acquiescence [in allowing marriages to proceed] may well be seen as a signal of the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts's intended resolution of that question," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote.
article_snippet.sent: But Justice Clarence Thomas only drew Scalia to join Justice Clarence Thomas dissent, suggesting that even fellow conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito saw the writing on the wall.