I am not a lawyer but... Abortion rights in the US were originally based on privacy (the government's right to tell a woman what she could or could not do with

I am not a lawyer but... Abortion rights in the US were originally based on privacy (the government's right to tell a woman what she could or could not do with her body). Overturning that widened government authority not just over abortion, but 1001 other issues linked to the same core finding. Laws banning sodomy were struck down on the same basis: what two consenting adults do behind closed doors that doesn't affect third parties are a violation of the "right to privacy". The same for interracial marriage. The same ruling has implications here because the data in question "belongs" to the phone company. But government buying it might violate individuals' right to privacy. Only individuals' right to privacy is now very curtailed. People think Roe vs Wade was an abortion ruling, but it was really a privacy one, and by overturning it SCOTUS has opened a very large number of social issues to be re-litigated. I agree it's a stretch to tie it to abortion (and maybe an appeal to emotion/politics?). But there is a link. I wish more people thought about all these issues (plus NSA spying and social media and 101 other things) in terms of one overall right to privacy. It's sort of the issue of our times (which I think West Wing predicted 20+ years ago)