The Diabetic Cyborg Life 05/02: Freedom, Privacy, & Politics; A Centuries old Debate
The recent stripping of Roe and all women’s privacy and access to health care is an important tent poll to the current GOP/Republican agenda. While the claim to love freedom and women, their actions show a whole other story.
Access to abortion will still decide this November’s election. As an NPR headline reports, “abortion looks like a key issue in 2024, voters more divided by party than ever” This divided country defines what America is and always had been since the founding.
Freedom of choice, privacy, and property was the origin of our nation. A long debate since the writing of our Constitution in 1787, James Madison:
“protecting specific aspects of privacy, such as the privacy of beliefs (1st Amendment), privacy of the home against demands that it be used to house soldiers (3rd Amendment), privacy of the person and possessions as against unreasonable searches (4th Amendment), and the 5th Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination, which provides protection for the privacy of personal information. In addition, the Ninth Amendment states that the “enumeration of certain rights” in the Bill of Rights “shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.” The meaning of the Ninth Amendment is elusive, but some persons (including Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence) have interpreted the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.”
This election is a continuation of a centuries old debate of privacy.
