Amy Gajda: The Founding Fathers were very interested in the right to privacy—for men
Since privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution, abortion’s claim to protection then hinged on history. The Court chided its predecessors infor finding fundamental constitutional protection for abortion based on a contemporary recognition of the profound personal stake of women in decisions about whether to carry a pregnancy through childbirth. Making such judgments about the extraordinary interests of women smacked too much of extra-judicial policymaking, the Court scolded.
All that was why women lost what the courts had recognized for a half century as their right to privacy in the abortion choice.
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