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Substantive Due Process and the Right to Bodily Autonomy

Quick fact

The Supreme Court first used substantive due process to protect bodily autonomy in 1965, when it struck down a Connecticut law banning contraception. The right was not found in a specific part of the Constitution but in the 'penumbras' of the Bill of Rights.

Why this is interesting

You have a right to decide what happens to your own body—but the Constitution never explicitly says so. How do judges know you have that right?