the woman=s life. The Georgia case, Doe v. Bolton, dealt with a state law permitting abortions only when required by the woman=s health, or to prevent birth of a deformed child, or when pregnancy resulted from rape. The Court=s ruling to make these laws invalid, implies that similarly restrictive laws in most other states were also unconstitutional. In spite of the decision in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe and Doe, the Supreme Court has seemed to become more conservative in upholding the right of privacy recent times. In Bower v. Hardwick (1986), the Court maintained a Georgia law that constituted sodomy illegal: Ain constitutional terms there is no such thing as a fundamental right to commit homosexual sodomy.@ In the case, Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court, and stated that the previous precedents did not apply because there was ANo connection between family, marriage, or procreation on the one hand and homosexual activities on the other has been demonstrated...@ Evidently the arguments, or fears, of Justice Douglas in Griswold, that; AWould we allow the police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms for telltale signs of the use of contraceptives? The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship.@ Though the relationship may be of a same sex partner, and the marriage of these couples is not highly accepted, this law not only outlawed sodomy for same sex partners, but for married couples as well. In twenty-one years, the Court, in essence contrasted their privacy ruling in Griswold.In the Supreme Court=s most recent decision, Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), the Court again took a right-winged position. By a five-four majority, the Court limited the rights of citizens it dictated in both Griswold and Roe: A(the Court) upheld Roe but narrowed its scope, refusing to invalidate a Pennsylvania law that significantly restricts freedom of choice.@ The dec...
