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janeeliot
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Date: May 05, 2022 10:54PM
For anyone struggling with the history of the right to privacy, here ya' go -- the best book on the topic -- by the guy who has argued the most successful cases before the Supreme Court -- so he actually gets -- like -- Constitutional law -- and stuff like that.
https://www.amazon.com/Abortion-Absolutes-Laurence-H-Tribe/dp/0393309568/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ITJ1NY6VY3CI&keywords=abortion+the+clash+of+absolutes&qid=1651804445&s=books&sprefix=abortion+the+clash+of+absolutes%2Cstripbooks%2C167&sr=1-1Hint -- NOT related to having troops in your home! But that's a thought! Maybe! (Or not so much.)
It is related to a right to conscience (your own, not the Mormon Church's, not the state of Utah's, not the Mormon Church's as pressed on you by the state of Utah which is politically controlled by the Mormons).
I would have thought that idea would be popular here -- but what do I know. It's -- erm -- something to hear the arguments for Mike Lee being able to turn his beliefs into law. Who knew that was what this board was about.
I'm teasing. I knew that.
That right to conscience from Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which upheld Roe.
"Our law affords constitutional protection to personal decisions relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, child rearing, and education. Carey v. Population Services International, 431 U. S., at 685. Our cases recognize "the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child." Eisenstadt v. Baird, supra, at 453 (emphasis in original). Our precedents "have respected the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter." Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166 (1944). These matters, involving the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy, are central to the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. *At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.*"
I love that part -- At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
Those of you who don't believe you have to right to define your own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, of the mystery of human life -- no offense -- but *why are you here*?