[Repeal 16-17]

The technical legal rationalization is the “right to privacy”, which got invented by the Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (a contraception case), extended in Gideon v. Wainwright and then went completely out of control in Roe vs Wade.

I believe you are referring to Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972). Gideon dealt with the right to counsel in the Sixth Amendment, not the right to privacy.

[ModelBreaker]

Thanks for the correction on Gideon. You are right and I should do these posts from references rather than memory.