... based on the Fourteenth Amendment and on earlier Supreme Court decisions. It was determined that a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy is a "liberty" protected against state interference by the substantive component of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that this right was "broad enough to ... certain restrictions in the first trimester even if they did not constitute an "undue burden." This of course may affect future decisions and may give even greater control of abortion to state legislatures as the meaning of "undue burden" is clarified. (Planned Parenthoo...

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... or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. " The language of ... over time on things like slavery, and civil rights, I think people eventually just decided that it did not really make sense for the Constitution to give certain rights, yet only have them apply to the federal government, and not the states, because that really does not make a whole lot of ...

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