"What is the true rationale of Roe? Well, this is what Justice Blackmun says. He specifically rejects the argument of Roe and her lawyers and amicus that a woman has a right to control her own body. In fact, he says, The claim asserted by some amici that one has an unlimited right to do with one’s body as one pleases does not bear a close relationship to the rights of privacy that this Court has articulated. And then he cited, with approval, two earlier decisions, Jacobson v. Massachusetts in 1905 dealing with compulsory vaccination and Buck v. Bell in 1937 dealing with sterilization. In Jacobson, the Supreme Court said that the State has a right to have compulsory vaccination against infectious diseases, even against those who object for religious reasons. Now, I find it astounding that the Court would compare child-bearing or abortion to mere vaccination. But this is the same Court in Roe that less than 12 months later ruled in a case called Geduldig v. Aiello that pregnancy is not a sex-related characteristic. I am not making this up. They referred to non-pregnant persons and pregnant persons. They did acknowledge, by the way, that pregnant persons happen to all be women. What a happy coincidence. Justice Stewart, Justice Powell, Justice Blackmun-they all joined both in Roe and in the conclusion that pregnancy is not a sex-related characteristic."