Stanford law Professor Bernadette Meyler said that despite Alito’s assurances that the birth control cases were different and not at risk, “It seems he’s calling into question the right to privacy.” She noted that the draft said privacy was “unmoored” in the Constitution.

Meyler also said the draft doesn’t read like a final opinion, with a tone more like Alito’s dissents. It seems likely other justices will want narrower language that doesn’t call all privacy rights into question, she said.