Roe is based on the right to privacy, one that isn't explicitly in the Constitution. Which is true in the most specific sense, but the last 100+ years of jurisprudence basically said "if the point of a Constitution is to ultimately limit the power of government and preserve the rights of the people, then it would most definitely follow that a person has a right to his own privacy without government intervention." This right to privacy has then been used repeatedly, including the 1968 case Loving v. Virginia, which held that the right to privacy, specifically whether you can marry someone outside your race, was so important and fundamental that a state law prohibiting that would most certainly be against the Constitution and therefore be struck down.
Not only does the Alito draft of the opinion reject the right to privacy at the outset as not in the Constitution, it specifically cites Loving as not being analogous to Roe. From my skimming of the decision, this opens to the door to reversing Loving.
So yeah, there's going to be a state that's going to pass laws forbidding interracial marriage, just to see if it can get all the up to the SC so they could rule on it, and this decision could be used to justify it, as "there's no right to privacy in the Constitution".
The GOP is going to ban abortions and gay marriage without ever openly campaign on it. It's just an efficient machine.
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