[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.