"Since Roe v. Wade was first announced nearly 25 years ago, a quarter of a century of criticism by academic commentators-liberals like John Hart Ely, conservatives like Judge Bork-and the commentators are try to struggle to find some rationale for Roe v. Wade Professor Seidman referred to it as the central holding that women have a right-have reproductive freedom. That is not what Roe said. In fact, the Court had never adopted that rationale. Now, our constitution respects privacy in many ways, but the Curt normally derives this right from clauses in the Constitution, such as the first and the fourth amendments. It has been particularly protective of activity that occurs in the home, but abortions occur in medical clinics or hospitals. Indeed, the analysis of Roe specifically does not rely on any interpretation of the text of the Constitution. The Roe Court, in announcing its results, referred to cases protecting various aspects of privacy, like marital privacy, and then said that because a pregnant woman carries a fetus that can develop into a child, the Court says, “The situation is therefore inherently different from marital intimacy, bedroom possession of obscene material, or marriage, or education,” all with which the prior cases were concerned. Instead the Roe Court simply announced that the right of privacy, however based, is broad enough to cover the abortion decision."