👩🏻‍⚖️ Abortion is About More Than Abortion.

Thinking about a very complicated and fast-moving issue.

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Abortion law is about privacy (when it should be about freedom)

Daniel Solove - a George Washington University privacy law expert who I often assign in class - spends an entire book trying to define privacy and finding no satisfying answer at the end.

That’s because privacy is hard to define. It means different things to different people. Privacy may mean a secret you keep from everyone, or only from those who aren’t close friends. It may mean keeping parts of your body out of view from strangers, or it may mean preventing people from using your likeness or photo in ways you don’t approve of.

In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court determined that a woman’s choice to get an abortion fit into an expansive definition of priv…