Liberty Rights and Privacy Rights
Liberty Rights and Privacy Rights
This chapter briefly reviews the evolution in decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court of what was originally identified as a privacy right but is now correctly identified as a liberty right against legal paternalism. The chapter uses the main principle to trace the contours of what this right should include: (1) right to religious freedom; (2) a right to sexual freedom; (3) a right to reproductive freedom; (4) a right to refuse medical treatment, including a right to refuse extraordinary care and to be removed from life support; (5) a right to marry that includes same sex marriage; (6) a right to suicide and assisted suicide in certain end-of-life situations. The chapter also explains why there should be human rights to spatial privacy and informational privacy.
Keywords: autonomy, drug prohibitions, good judgment, informational privacy, main principle, Odysseus phenomenon, rights to privacy, religious freedom, reproductive freedom, sexual freedom, suicide, slavery contracts
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