![]() In his majority opinion upending these decades-old decisions, Justice Alito notes that the Constitution “makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion” and that such a “right” is not “rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition.” Further, Justice Alito’s opinion takes direct aim at “the freedom to make ‘intimate and personal choices’ that are ‘central to personal dignity and autonomy’,” as cited in Casey v. ![]() Planned Parenthood -both overturned by Dodd. Much of the law – common, case, and statute federal, state, and local – that we rely on to protect the rights of a person with decisional capacity to direct their medical care is founded in the same rights of privacy, due process, and personal agency on which the right to an abortion was based in Roe v. But I think we are entering the part of the world map that once was labeled “Here there be dragons!” Dodd, Roe, and Personal Autonomy I would love for my concerns to be groundless, and I look forward to comments from practicing lawyers to set me straight. I’m not an attorney, so my reading of any court decision, law, or regulation is really for discussion only. ![]() Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization may be just as serious for palliative care as for reproductive care. Definitions of life and the authority to direct its course affect the end of life as much as the beginning. ![]() Chances are that whatever your thoughts and reactions are to the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion, its impact on care for people with serious, advanced, or terminal illnesses may not be top of mind. ![]()
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