TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 12 P50

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 12 P50 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | MILESTONES IN THE LAW ROE V. WADE 477 Nor is the privacy that the Court finds here even a distant relative of the freedom from searches and seizures protected by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution which the Court has referred to as embodying a right to privacy. Katz v. United States 389 . 347 88 . 507 19 576 1967 . to this case arising under the Due Process U-S- supreme Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Unless I COURT jANuAry . 973 misapprehend the consequences of this transplanting of the compelling state interest test the Court s opinion will accomplish the seemingly impossible feat of leaving this area of the law more confused than it found it. If the Court means by the term privacy no more than that the claim of a person to be free from unwanted state regulation of consensual transactions may be a form of liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment there is no doubt that similar claims have been upheld in our earlier decisions on the basis of that liberty. I agree with the statement of Mr. Justice STEWART in his concurring opinion that the liberty against deprivation of which without due process the Fourteenth Amendment protects embraces more than the rights found in the Bill of Rights. But that liberty is not guaranteed absolutely against deprivation only against deprivation without due process of law. The test traditionally applied in the area of social and economic legislation is whether or not a law such as that challenged has a rational relation to a valid state objective. Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. 348 . 483 491 75 . 461 466 99 . 563 1955 . The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment undoubtedly does place a limit albeit a broad one on legislative power to enact laws such as this. If the Texas statute were to prohibit an abortion even where the mother s life is in jeopardy I have little doubt that such a statute would lack a rational relation to a valid state objective under the test stated in Williamson .

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