the language of the opinion comes close to accusing majority of illegitimate si. i find nothing in the language or history of the constitution to support the court's judgment. it invests that right with sufficient substance to over ride most existing state abortion statutes. the up shot is that the people and the legislatures of 50 states are constitutionally disentitled to weigh the relative importance of the continued existence and development of the fetus on the one hand against a spectrum of possible impacts on the mother on the other hand. as an exercise in raw judicial power, the court perhaps has authority to do what it does today, but my view its judgment is an improvidence and extrav gantt exercise of the power of judicial review that the constitution extends to this court. the final opinion for which byron white is most popularly or unpopularly known is bowers versus hardway in 1946. speaking for a majority, he declined to read into the due process clause a constitutional right for adults to engage in homosexual activity in private. after reviewing the h