In the mailbox: Janet Smith on the Right to Privacy

Co-published by Ignatius Press and the National Catholic Bioethics Center, available for pre-order:

It also features an excellent introduction by Robert H. Bork, of the Ave Maria School of Law.

From the book jacket:

"Janet E. Smith, the well-known philosophy professor and writer, presents a critical look at the meaning of the "right to privacy" taht has been so often employed by the Supreme Court in recent times to justify the creation of rights not found in the Constitution by any traditional method of interpreting a legal document. Smith demonstrates how such inventions have led to the legal protection of abortion, assisted suicide, homosexual acts and more.

... The Right to Privacy is an essentuial primer for any serious study of the current issues surrounding what Pope John Paul II called the Culture of Death, both here in the United States as well as internationally."

Janet Smith, with her typical crystal-clear logic and easy prose, shows the remarkable way in which "actions that were at one time considered abominable crimes are now considered inalienable rights."