{"id":13993,"date":"2022-08-09T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/law\/2022\/08\/09\/weighing-in-on-roe-v-wade-in-the-dobbs-decision\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:39:19","slug":"weighing-in-on-roe-v-wade-in-the-dobbs-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/2022\/08\/09\/weighing-in-on-roe-v-wade-in-the-dobbs-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighing in on Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court\u2019s June 24, 2022, decision overturning\u00a0Roe v. Wade <\/em>in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization <\/em><\/a>sent shock waves around the country and, indeed, around the world. This landmark decision will affect people on every side of the complex debate concerning a woman\u2019s right to control her own medical, moral, and reproductive choices. At a June 28 panel discussion with Provost Norma Bouchard and Professors Lori Cox Han and Charissa Threat,\u00a0Marisa\u00a0Cianciarulo, Professor of Law and Interim Dean of Chapman University Fowler School of Law, presented her insights into the constitutional and societal implications of this Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n

Dean Cianciarulo<\/a> used her time on the June 28 panel to present a compelling case that the U.S. Constitution<\/a> protects an individual\u2019s right to privacy in several areas, including how and whether to worship, when and with whom to associate\u2013and in what capacity, as well as affording individuals\u2019 freedom from unreasonable government intrusions into our homes and property. While the word \u201cprivacy\u201d doesn\u2019t appear in the Constitution, Dean Cianciarulo argues that the concept is embedded throughout the document.<\/p>\n

Dean Cianciarulo notes that\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>\u00a0left the intensely personal, private decision of whether to continue with or terminate a pregnancy up to a woman and her doctor, conscience and religious beliefs. The\u00a0Dobbs<\/em>\u00a0decision, on the other hand, forces all pregnant women to abide by others\u2019 religious and moral beliefs, irrespective of her position on the issue, her physical and mental capacity for bearing a child, or any other factor that impacts her, her family, and the children she will be forced to bear.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Dobbs<\/em>\u00a0decision, Dean Cianciarulo argues, renders girls and women helpless, mindless, subordinate beings with no autonomy over their bodies. Moreover, the five majority justices\u2019 lack of respect for precedent jeopardizes an alarming array of privacy-based rights that are essential to an inclusive and equitable modern society: The right to birth control, the right to marriage equality, and the right to engage in sex outside of marriage, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean \u00a0Cianciarulo, Professor of Law and Interim Dean of Chapman University Fowler School of Law, presented her insights into the constitutional and societal implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4618,"featured_media":14010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[386,1],"tags":[55,5],"class_list":["post-13993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dale-e-fowler-school-of-law","category-uncategorized","tag-constitutional-law","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}