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Those things aren't protected by privacy. Those things are protected by simply rights. I have the right to marry to get married, i have the right to have kids, I have the right to seek medical attention. Even then, these acts routinely involve the government, because the government has an inherent interest in all these areas that will require them to disperse money and payments in the future.Previously posted:
You and most people in this thread are using the word 'privacy' too literally.The court deliberations for the different precedents based on privacy a) were not for the most part decided by the RvW bench. I dont think any were. (hence 'pre') And b) were very clear on how they were being applied. It's not about 'hiding' information from others, it's about the right to conduct marriage, contraception, reproduction, medical decisions, etc without intrusion from the govt. That the govt had no right to decide those things for or deny them to individuals.
I have read it, and doesn't say what you think it says. Blackmun's opinion was more about the privacy of the doctor to perform the abortions that his clients wanted. They weren't concerned about the privacy of the woman to get the abortion itself.If you want to know exactly how they were used in RvW and how they applied them...read it. Google it, see the list that Minnie616 posts all the time. Then articulate, from that, how you think they were not used properly.
And I'm sure every decision is "correct" and "without flaw" 100% of the time, unless it is Dobbs, the one single decision that you're allowed to say is false, illegitimate, and based on terrible readings of the constitution and the like.But those precedents have been used in the federal courts (and probably state) for decades to support many other decisions/issues besides abortion.