Justice Sandra Day O'Connor contributed to the legal debate over abortion by maintaining that state abortion restrictions are permissible provided they do not create
A) parental consent requirements.
B) unnecessary information.
C) a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion can be performed.
D) compelling scrutiny.
E) an undue burden.
The major criticism of the dissenting justices in Roe v. Wade was that
A) the other justices were writing their own policy preferences into law.
B) the Constitution clearly bans the procedure under question.
C) the Court did not hear sufficient testimony before reaching its decision.
D) the case should have been dismissed as moot.
E) the law as applied was too narrow to fit any other precedent.
What was the decision in the case of Roe v. Wade?
A) It upheld the right of couples to use birth control devices.
B) It upheld the right of gay Americans to consenting sexual relationships.
C) It denied the right of gay Americans to consenting sexual relationships.
D) It upheld the right of women to have abortions.
E) It ruled that state laws criminalizing adultery were unconstitutional.
Griswold v. Connecticut, which challenged a Connecticut statute that declared the use of birth control devices a crime, established the principle that
A) birth control is a matter of religious belief and therefore cannot be limited by the state.
B) the states are free to restrict matters of personal privacy.
C) the Constitution guarantees the right to obtain an abortion.
D) the Bill of Rights as a whole creates a zone of personal privacy or autonomy.
E) government cannot successfully enact a law for morality.
The significance of the Ninth Amendment remained unexplored until the case of
A) Roe v. Wade.
B) Palko v. Connecticut.
C) Griswold v. Connecticut.
D) Mapp v. Ohio.
E) Lemon v. Kurtzman.
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