“If the foundation of a house crumbles, the whole house is threatened,” said Samuel Garrett-Pate, a spokesperson for Equality California, an LGBTQ advocacy group. “The court is clearly telegraphing exactly where they plan to go next.”

A draft opinion leaked to Politico revealed that the court’s conservative majority is preparing to repeal Roe v. Wade, though it has not issued a formal ruling yet. The draft ruling, if made official, would allow individual states to decide whether to ban the procedure.

The situation led many in the LGBTQ community to question if overturning such a foundational section of privacy law in the United States could lead to a patchwork of laws in Republican states that roll back the community’s rights.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, warned of the implications for LGBTQ rights during a news conference Tuesday about a separate bill he is carrying to make California a refuge for families with transgender children who live in states where Republican-led legislatures have banned gender-affirming health care.

“I’ll be honest, we are living in very, very scary times,” he said of the Roe v. Wade draft opinion.

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