Response 3 DB5 (200 words)

The right to privacy is not explicitly provided within the United States Constitution even though it is referenced in the Fourth Amendment.  Privacy rights are considered fundamental rights in which those are protected throughout the Constitution.  In the 20th century the courts have ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental liberties of parents and marriage.  “Griswold and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) established the constitutional baseline for Roe v. Wade (1973), the Court’s landmark decision establishing a woman’s right to abortion” (Ivers, 2013).  The ruling on many of these cases was indeed protecting the fundamental rights the woman has but also ensuring the protection as well.  “Justice Harry Blackmun held, in Roe v. Wade (1973), that the right to privacy was broad enough to include the right of a woman to an abortion. That right, though, was not absolute. Blackmun’s opinion divided the woman’s pregnancy into three trimesters, holding that state’s only interest in limiting or prohibiting the right to abortion came after fetal viability” (Ivers, 2013)