Originally Posted by marmalade6

Getting back to the Right to Privacy thing:

The Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the constitution, at least the roots of that right in the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, in the Prenumbras of the Bill of Rights, and in the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments....they also make it clear that the right has some extension to activities relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relations, child rearing and education.

But, it's thought that "The lower status of the right to privacy seriously peopardizes abortion rights in the U.S."

And, that a better constitutional arguement against a [state] abortion ban would be to say it violates the Thirteenth Amendment which protects people from Involuntary Servitude.

A person cannot be made to perform servicesfor another person against her will.

Neither Roe v. Wade nor any subsequent Supreme Court opinion has defined the bearing of a child to be something other than a form of labor. Thus any law that forces a woman to ge through the labor of nurturing a fetus involuntarily is a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.