Privacy

Question 1

Griswold v. Connecticut

Answer 1

A Connecticut law criminalizing the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

Question 2

Roe v. Wade

Answer 2

The Court ruled that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state’s interests in regulating abortions: protecting women’s health and protecting the potentiality of human life.

-abortion is a fundamental right

Question 3

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Answer 3

A Pennsylvania law that required spousal awareness prior to obtaining an abortion was invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment because it created an undue burden on married women seeking an abortion.

Question 4

Gonzales v. Carhart

Answer 4

The Supreme Court’s decision upheld Congress’s Partial-Brith Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and held that it did not impose an undue burden on the due process right of women to obtain an abortion.

Question 5

McCullen v. Coakley

Answer 5

The provisions of the Reproductive Health Care Facilities Act limiting protesting within 35 feet of an abortion clinic violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment..

Question 6

Lawrence v. Texas

Answer 6

A Texas law classifying consensual, adult homosexual intercourse as illegal sodomy violated the privacy and liberty of adults to engage in private intimate conduct under the 14th Amendment.

Question 7

Bowers v. Hardwick

Answer 7

A Georgia law classifying homosexual sex as illegal sodomy was valid because there was no constitutionally protected right to engage in homosexual sex.

Question 8

Obergefell v. Hodges

Answer 8

The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State.