For the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the right to abortion was better characterised as an expression of sex equality than the right to privacy recognised by Roe v Wade.
At her 1993 confirmation hearing she told the US Senate:
‘…it is essential to women’s equality with men … that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
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