Neil Gorsuch: “Yes, Senator, I do. Privacy is in a variety of places in the Constitution.”

The Supreme Court of the United States has held in Roe vs. Wade that a fetus is not a person. That’s the law of the land. I accept the law of the land.

Apart from pointing to habitual drunkard laws, the government has not even attempted to prove that any other specific historical principle might justify its prosecution in this case.

Many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made but the price of keeping them has become too great so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking.

the State took steps that, it said, would help ensure that a variety of other nongovernmental entities and governmental agencies would continue to provide access to necessary medical care and important women’s health and family planning…