Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that Dan Savage is suggesting that Democrats should propose a right-to-privacy amendment to the Constitution. That would be a lot more transparent than the attempt to derive rights to abortion, contraception, and sodomy from the Constitution we have. It wouldn’t be as transparent as an amendment explicitly declaring rights to abortion through month nine, contraception, and sodomy. Either way, it would undoubtedly fail. That’s why liberals generally don’t bother with amendments and head straight to the courts.