Rosen v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners

(dissenting):*

“ * * * One of the basic values of [the right to] privacy is birth control, as evidenced by the Griswold decision. Griswold’s act was to prevent forma*1233tion of the fetus. This, the court found, was constitutionally protected. If an individual may prevent conception, why can he not nullify that conception when prevention has failed?” Mr. Justice Clark, Religion, Morality, and Abortion: A Constitutional Appraisal, 2 Loyola Law Review of L. A. 1, 8 (1969)

Because, answer the majority of this Court, a “human life” comes into existence at conception, and the State’s interest in…