Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Here's An Even Better Essay on the Subject

Sex Appeal: Is Lawrence Worse Than Roe? In a word, yes. To some up my view, I quote Justice Thomas from the essay:

"The law before the Court today "is ... uncommonly silly," he said, quoting Justice Stewart's dissent in the contraceptives case. "If I were a member of the Texas Legislature, I would vote to repeal it." Nevertheless, Thomas said he was unable to find in the Constitution a "general right of privacy," or, as the Court "the liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions."