- The Court offered no general account of the right of privacy.
It offered reasons to regard the right to abort as important for
women, but it did not say why these reasons should give it status
as a fundamental Constitutional right. (For Ely, the reasons offered
would be relevant to legislative action.)
- Because neither legal precedent nor the language nor the values
underlying the Constitution implies a fundamental right to terminate
pregnancy, the question belongs in the legislatures where both
the good and the harm done by legalizing abortion can be debated
and weighed.
|