[gdani]

In addition, there's no mention of a "right to privacy" or "right to a fair trial" in the Constitution even though the Supreme Court has also recognized those as constitutional principles.

[ArGee]

In addition, there's no mention of a "right to privacy" or "right to a fair trial" in the Constitution even though the Supreme Court has also recognized those as constitutional principles.

Hmmm. Right to privacy? You are correct. But there is a right to property which amounts to the same thing.

Right to a fair trial? What have you been smoking? Or don't you know what "without due process" means?

Shalom.

[jude24]

The "right to a fair trial" is in the due process clause of the 5th amendment.

[Busywhiskers]

There is actually quite a lot explicitly stated in the constitution about the right to a fair trial. The due process clause of the 14th amendment. The whole fifth amendment concerns rights in criminal cases. The sixth amendment concerns the right to a fair trial. The fourth amendment concerns searches and arrest warrents.

With respect to the right to privacy we need to remember that we are not limited to the rights enumerated in the constitution. This fallacy is exactly what the opponents of the bill of rights warned against. If we throw out the right to privacy, we throw out a lot of other useful stuff like parental rights and right of parents to direct their children's education among others.
The issue with abortion is that society has a compelling interest to protect innocent people from being killed by others. Hence we have law against murder and manslaughter. Accordingly, abortion, which results in the death of an innocent human being, is not a private decision between a woman and her physician, it is a decision which affects all of society and to use the right to privacy as a lever to gain a "right to abortion" is absurd.