The Founding Fathers were so concerned about the rights of the citizens of the new nation that they inserted the first Ten Amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, to make certain that they would be forever protected. The focus of the modern Supreme Court was to expand the legal standing of unenumerated rights, especially in the area of civil rights, until the far right extremists on the present SC severely limited the right to privacy upon which the Roe decision was based.
Let’s take a look at a couple of the central themes of the Bill if Rights:
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,………
Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
While the term “privacy” was not used, it quickly becomes quite clear that it was fully intended as an “unenumerated” right, that the people should be legally “secure in their persons”. It thus became the foundation of the Roe decision that a woman’s privacy should not be invaded by the state as regards her decision about terminating her pregnancy. That is, until the far right extremists on the SC allowed their personal religious biases to override a principle of the Constitution, namely the right to personal privacy, in favor of making a woman a ward of the state at the instant of pregnancy. Yes, the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves over the injustice towards the privacy of certain citizens, namely women, by what is clearly a religious-based POLITICAL faction on the SC.
