bendog
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Well the current SC appears to support a non-enumerated right to marriage at least for heteros, and that is based upon "history," and that the EP protects race but not orientation .... and don't ask me for the logic.So we do not have a constitutional right to privacy??? Really????
WE have a privacy right to contraception, or at least some forms. Some theocrats consider the IUD "murder."
WE have privacy right to "sodomy."
WE have a privacy right to procreate
We have a privacy right to terminate medical treatment.
WE have a privacy right to watch porn
Right to Privacy
Right to Privacy - Understand Right to Privacy, LAWS.COM - American Constitution 1789, its processes, and crucial LAWS.COM - American Constitution 1789 information needed.
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There are probably more.
jmo but we should have continued to have an abortion right to privacy, but for all practical purposes the US Sup Ct had allowed states to not allow access to clinics because states could regulate them out of existence. My guess is the Roe Justicses (bipartsan) thought that the vast maj would just accept it, as we support marriage and procreation as rights. There were only two dissenters. And Roe basically just "made the law" as it existed at the Founding. No abortion right after the fetus quickened.
in hindsight, we should have just let the politics work out, since in 1973 the momentum was to "liberalize" abortion laws, although I'd guess in Jesusland prohibitions would have continued. But the dogma of the catholic church, and their hypocrisy, and the misogyny of groups like Knights of Columbus would have been more ridiculed and they'd be taken seriously by even fewer people. And Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Cohen and Keggers are NOT mainstream in their religious views.