ster, according to the Court, the state could regulate and proscribe abortion, except where it was necessary to protect the mother's health.
There are two problems with this decision. First, The basis for the Court's reasoning, the right of privacy, was itself based upon an uncertain constitutional premise. Nowhere does the Constitution explicitly provide for such a right. It was developed through an expansive interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause. To be fair, this interpretation was extension of that put forth in Griswold v. Connecticut. There, the Court held that the law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives to unmarried persons infringed upon a relationship residing within a "zone of privacy created b
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