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14th Amendment With Abortion In Cook
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In the resulting Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that a woman's decision to have an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy fell under the right of privacy and thus was protected by the Constitution.
As an effect of the unanimity of the states in holding unborn children to be persons under criminal, tort, and property law, the text of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels federal protection of unborn persons.
The Fourteenth Amendment only applies to actions by state governments (state actions), not private actions. Consider, for example, Obergefell, which involved the fundamental right to marry. Some state laws interfered with that right.
The Supreme Court, however, beginning as early as 1923 and continuing through its recent decisions, has broadly read the "liberty" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee a fairly broad right of privacy that has come to encompass decisions about child rearing, procreation, marriage, and termination of ...
A1: Although the Fourteenth Amendment does not contain the word “privacy” itself, nor does it appear in the rest of the Constitution, U.S. courts have long acknowledged an individual's right to privacy in home and family life. The Supreme Court first recognized a constitutional right to privacy in Griswold v.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
People must be able and empowered to freely and responsibly make decisions about their own bodies, including if, when and how many children to have. Realizing this right includes ensuring universal access to quality sexual and reproductive health information and services, even in conflict and disaster.
At 331 (Stevens, J., dissenting) ( A competent individual's decision to refuse life-sustaining medical procedures is an aspect of liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ).