...greater emphasis on physical autonomy as a rights value, the Court emphasizes that at stake here are "the most intimate and personal choices a person may...choices central to personal dignity and autonomy" (ibid.). Most important, the joint opinion acknowledges for the first time that women's equality in...

...Parenthood v. Casey, 505 US 833, 851 (1992), the Court offered a paradigmatic statement of that principle: matters involving the most intimate and personal choices...person may make in a lifetime, choices central to a person's dignity and autonomy, are central to the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment....

..."Like the decision of whether or not to have an abortion, the decision how and when to die is one of 'the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime,' a choice 'central to personal dignity and autonomy.' A competent terminally ill adult, having lived...

...that Our precedents "have respected the private realm of family life which the state cannot enter." These matters, involving the most intimate and personal...the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Accordingly, the abortion decision is so "intimate and personal" that the state cannot simply impose...

...jurisprudence provides ample reason to believe the Constitution safeguards trearment decisions which are among "the most intimate and personal choices a person may...lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy."129 119 STATE INTERESTS PreservIng Health State interest is weak concerning competent adults...

..."Like the decision of whether or not to have an ahortion. the decision how and when to die is one of 'the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime,' a choice 'central to personal dignity and autonomy,'"10 Response The capacious. one might even say...

...Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 US 438, 453, 92 S.Ct. 1029, 1038, 31 L. Ed. 2d 349 (1972) (emphasis in original). "These matters, involving the most intimate and personal...the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment." (Emphasis added.) Finally, the Court today recognizes that in the case of abortion, "the liberty of...

...relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, childrearing and education. [These] matters, involving the most intimate and personal...central to the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment."8 Robertson argues that if the Supreme Court can be expected to recognize a married couple's...

...highly personal and intimate as well as of great importance to the individual': These matters involve the most intimate and personal choices a person may...autonomy are central to the liberty protected by the 14th Amendment. At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning,...

...then depicts what is actually a rather checkered and even incoherent judicial record on privacy as involving "the most intimate and personal choices...choices central to personal dignity and autonomy."" The justices build quickly to a crescendo, concluding that "(a]t the heart of liberty is the right...