“If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or begat a child.”

Writing for the court, Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972).

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