The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade has LGBTQ+ advocates worried how this could affect more freedoms.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the court should reconsider other decisions dealing with the right to same-sex intimacy and same-sex marriage. Joshua Croke is the president and co founder of Love Your Labels, a LGBTQ+ youth-based organization in Worcester. They say all oppression is connected and people need to not only show up for issues affecting them personally, but also ones affecting others in their community.

"The right to access health care safely and the decision for one's bodily autonomy is absolutely an issue that faces women, that faces the queer community, that has implications for freedom as it is defined," Croke said. "This is really the case of people's belief systems compromising the safety of other people."

Massachusetts has laws in place to protect abortion access and other human rights issues like gay marriage. However, Riley McGuire, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ advisory group at Worcester State, says it's important to advocate for those living in other states.

"Where geography determines your right to health care, where it determines your right to marry the person of your choice ... so absolutely, I don't think we should say we are in Massachusetts we've had these things for many years, we will most likely keep those things for the foreseeable future, therefore this isn't our fight, this isn't our issue," McGuire said. "I think we need to have solidarity with people all across the country when it comes to these problems."

Croke and McGuire recommends people be active, informed voters and help educate others.