TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 12 P10

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 12 P10 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 LAWRENCE V. TEXAS 77 state the fundamental proposition that the law impaired the exercise of their personal rights ibid. It quoted from the statement of the Court of Appeals finding the law to be in conflict with fundamental human rights and it followed with this statement of its own It is true that in Griswold the right of privacy in question inhered in the marital relationship. If the right of privacy means anything it is 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. Id. at 453. The opinions in Griswold and Eisenstadt were part of the background for the decision in Roe v. Wade 410 . 113 1973 . As is well known the case involved a challenge to the Texas law prohibiting abortions but the laws of other States were affected as well. Although the Court held the woman s rights were not absolute her right to elect an abortion did have real and substantial protection as an exercise of her liberty under the Due Process Clause. The Court cited cases that protect spatial freedom and cases that go well beyond it. Roe recognized the right of a woman to make certain fundamental decisions affecting her destiny and confirmed once more that the protection of liberty under the Due Process Clause has a substantive dimension of fundamental significance in defining the rights of the person. In Carey v. Population Services Int l 431 . 678 1977 the Court confronted a New York law forbidding sale or distribution of contraceptive devices to persons under 16 years of age. Although there was no single opinion for the Court the law was invalidated. Both Eisenstadt and Carey as well as the holding and rationale in Roe confirmed that the reasoning of Griswold could not be confined to the protection of rights of married adults. This was the state of the law with respect to some of the most relevant cases when the Court

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