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Planned Parenthood vs. the First Amendment

Planned Parenthood vs. the First Amendment
A Planned Parenthood building in New York on Aug. 31, 2015. Lucas Jackson/File Photo/Reuters
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Planned Parenthood has long advocated the “right to choose,” which was deemed to inhere in the Constitution by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade in 1973.  In that decision Justice William Douglas discovered the “Penumbra of Rights” doctrine—the unwritten rights that the Framers would have included in the Constitution had they but thought about it a bit further.

Marc Ruskin
Marc Ruskin
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Marc Ruskin, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, is a regular contributor and the author of “The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI.” He served on the legislative staff of U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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