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On the Origins of Privacy
Wulf, Melvin L. | May 27, 1991 issue

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This article presents the author's comments on the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the right of privacy in the court case Roe v. Wade. Critics of the case still continue their unceasing attacks against the abortion-rights decision in the hope of persuading the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to overturn it. The main target for conservative academics and lawyers is the right of privacy, which is the decision's constitutional foundation. In an article in the newspaper "New York Times," Robert Bork accused the Court of having plucked the right of privacy out of thin air in the 1965 case Griswold v. Connecticut, and of creating a "new, free-floating, undefined right."

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PRIVACY, Right of; PRIVACY; SOCIAL psychology; ACTIONS & defenses; UNITED States. Congress; ABORTION -- Law & legislation; UNITED States
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