Editing Thurgood Marshall (section)

=== Privacy ===
In Marshall's view, the Constitution guaranteed to all citizens the [[right to privacy]]; he felt that although the Constitution nowhere mentioned such a right expressly, it could be inferred from various provisions of the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]].<ref name="Ball-1998" />{{Rp|page=356}} He joined the majority in ''[[Eisenstadt v. Baird]]'' to strike down a statute that prohibited the distribution or sale of [[contraceptives]] to unmarried persons, dissented when the Court in ''[[Bowers v. Hardwick]]'' upheld an [[Sodomy law|anti-sodomy law]], and dissented from the majority's decision in ''[[Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health]]'' that the Constitution did not protect an unconditional [[right to die]].<ref name="Ball-1998" />{{Rp|pages=358–364}} On the issue of abortion rights, the author [[Carl T. Rowan]] comments that "no justice ever supported a woman's right to choice as uncompromisingly as Marshall did".<ref name="Rowan-1993" />{{Rp|page=323}} He joined Blackmun's opinion for the Court in ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', which held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to have an abortion,<ref name="Davis-1992" />{{Rp|page=342}} and he consistently voted against state laws that sought to limit that right in cases such as ''[[Maher v. Roe]]'', ''[[H. L. v. Matheson]]'', ''[[Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health]]'', ''[[Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists]]'', and ''[[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baugh |first=Joyce A. |date=Winter 1996 |title=Justice Thurgood Marshall: Advocate for Gender Justice |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1311811713 |journal=Western Journal of Black Studies |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=195–206|id={{ProQuest|1311811713}} }}</ref>{{Rp|page=203}}