Abstract

One year after the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court changed its stance on the federal protection of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy – which had matured since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision – this article focuses on the Supreme Court’s case law, with reference to the interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment in the field of civil rights. In the light of (or rather: in the cone of shadow projected by) the Dobbs decision, the A. focuses on the intertwining of the declinations of the “liberty principleµ and the declinations of equality in interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, but also – at least incidentally – on how different understandings of liberty and equality have reflected or marked important passages in U.S. constitutional history