[Tabi Katz]

The popular interpretation is that it is a "privacy" issue, but what the ruling really said is that the federal government has no rights to get involved in it.

Umm, so the Supreme Court is NOT a part of the federal government? Do tell!

[Natural Law]

The SCOTUS asserted that abortion was an extension of martial privacy as decided in Griswold v. Connecticut. In doing so it ruled that the federal government had no authority to act on the matter.