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In the right to privacy is so broad that it applies to abortion, it should also apply to self-medicating yourself with narcotics. I'm not saying that decriminalization of drugs is a bad thing, but it's something that obviously shouldn't be decided by the Supreme Court.

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Yep, and if it applies to abortion, why not third-trimester abortion? Why is that relevant to a privacy interest?

Where is the right to privacy in the Constitution, btw? Sounds like the whole thing is legislating from the bench! Maybe we should bring back Lochner-style scrutiny of minimum wage laws under a newly-discovered "right to earn a living"?

> Where is the right to privacy in the Constitution, btw?

People inevitably making this argument was actually the primary argument against adopting a Bill of Rights at all, and the Ninth Amendment was the compromise solution to have some enumerated rights while hoping to negate this exact argument.

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