Justice Thomas' wants to know on what the right to abortion is constitutionally based

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked one primary question during the oral arguments in the Court on Wednesday, as the Justices took up hearing a watershed case on abortion rights in the United States, and he asked it more than once.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization deals with the constitutionality of a law enacted in Mississippi in 2018 that prohibits abortions in cases where "the probable gestational age of the unborn human" was more than 15 weeks.

Justice Thomas was specifically interested in the question of what constitutional right the right to get an abortion is based on. He asked counsel, "If I know your interest here is in abortion. I understand that. But if I were to ask you what constitutional right protects the right to abortion? Is it privacy is it autonomy? What would it be?"