![]() ![]() The Right to Contraception and the Right to Procreate 3 While not exclusively dependent on Roe, Roe influenced privacy and liberty principles in each of these areas-principles that are now in jeopardy because the Supreme Court overturned Roe in Dobbs v. 2 Although the Supreme Court’s recognition of the right to privacy predates Roe, Roe was an important affirmation of and foundation for a broad array of privacy and liberty rights. The Constitution’s protection of liberty and privacy underlies the Supreme Court’s recognition of fundamental rights related to contraception and procreation, marriage, family relations, child rearing, and intimacy. This right to privacy is part of the right to liberty protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which state that no person shall be deprived of “life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” 1 These rights are in jeopardy now that Roe has been overturned. Wade did far more than establish the right to abortion it solidified and expanded the constitutional “right to privacy,” which has also been described as the right to autonomy or to be let alone. ![]()
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