Issue of Women's Reproductive Rights

Birth control was a matter of controversy in the nineteenth century, though it was also a subject that was gaining more and more interest as the century progressed, with a variety of books and pamphlets offered to help people understand the issue and some of the techniques for what we would today call family planning. A crusade began in the 1870s to suppress birth control information, an attempt to force America to live up to its sexual ideals. Before the Civil War, moral reform was directed largely at slavery

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the language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that the Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional fundamental rights, protected from government infringement, which exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the first eight constitutional amendments (Friendly and Elliott 200). Though concurring in the opinion, Justices Harlan and White did not agree with the concept of penumbras or the right of privacy. Justice Harlan relied on the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and said that the question was whether the law "violates basic values implicit in the concept of ordered liberty." He said that this did not depend on "radiations" from the bill of Rights. Justice White relied on earlier decisions of the court and said that the rationale of discouraging illicit sexual relations was not sufficient state justification for the "sweeping scope of the statute." Justices Stewart and Black were the dissenters in the case, and while both admitted that the law was offensive to them, they could not accept the rationale offered for overturning it. Black wrote, I like my privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right
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