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Repudiating Morals Legislation: Rendering The Constitutional Right To Privacy Obsolete, Sonu Bedi

Cleveland State Law Review

This article is set out in three parts. Part II outlines the difficulties with the right to privacy. Part III articulates the relationship between morals legislation and privacy, demonstrating that we no longer need the latter as long as the state eschews the former. Part IV argues that the Court in Lawrence articulates a new standard of rational review where specific appeal to morality is constitutionally suspect, allowing us to reject the right to privacy