Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law, 1st major ruling on abortion with Kavanaugh on court

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10. Like to think so. But the way the court is being

stacked suggests an eventual challenge to the "right of privacy" from which we get our "rights" to abortion, contraception, interracial marriage, on-line privacy, even to the decision to have children or not and how many, elective surgery, keep our medical information from employers and gossips, and so much else.

That right to make our own decisions about our private matters is, of course, written nowhere in the constitution. Only "inferred" from various parts. Like the Ninth Amendment, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

So it's not exactly a rock-solid foundation even to people who believe it's rightly inferred, while others, like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, do not believe it exists.

Amazing to think states could outlaw birth control right up into the 1960s, when a CT law banning it lead to the seminal case that patched together a rationale for protecting individuals from the state. Even then that first case only made it legal for married couples, though.