; Whereas it is tempting to suppose that the Due Process Clause protects only those practices, defined at the most specific level, that were protected against government interference by other rules of law when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified … But such a view would be inconsistent with our law. It is a promise of the Constitution that there is a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter. We have vindicated this principle before. Marriage is mentioned nowhere in the Bill of Rights and interracial marriage was illegal in most States in the 19th century, but the Court was no doubt correct in finding it to be an aspect of liberty protected against State interference by the substantive component of the Due Process Clause in Loving v. Virginia ; Whereas, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court presided over a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi law that bans virtually all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy; Whereas, during oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, poignantly and correctly stated, Will this institution [the Supreme Court] survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible ; Whereas, on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization by holding that— (1) the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives ; (2) a restrictive standard applies for substantive due process rights under the United States Constitution by only recognizing rights deeply rooted in [our] history and tradition and implicit in the concept of ordered liberty ; and (3) a State’s regulation of abortion is not a sex-based classification and is thus not subject to the heightened scrutiny that applies to such classifications