Then I realized, I actually like con law.

This morning, after living in Charlotte over the summer and going on vacation almost every weekend, for one of the first times I woke up in my bed . I pulled my eyeshades away from my eyes, and looked at the black clock sitting in front of me. It was already 11am.

I went downstairs, brushed my teeth, and got a cold glass of water, before I headed back to my room to find something to do. Immediately, I walked over to my bookshelves, and began scanning the titles. In my English Lit undergrad, I saved most of my books, and a few textbooks and anthologies, so I can usually find something interesting to read in my down time. On the bookshelf I was scanning, I saved the top two shelves for my law books. My eyes crossed over my con law textbook, which is hard to miss, since it populates half of the second shelf, and is bright red.

I shuffled through it's immense contents, and stopped on a page detailing "Fundamental Rights Under Due Process and Equal Protection." Skimming through the seas of sentences, I stopped on a sentence, reading

" . . . the Supreme Court has considered a constitutional right to refuse medical care . . ."

Considering that the author chose to personifiy the Supreme Court, by writing that "the Supreme Court has considered," I pondered over what he was really saying. The Supreme Court doesn't just sit around and "consider" important issues; they try the most difficult issues, ones that sometimes cannot be decided in state supreme courts. They try serious cases.

Even if the author didn't know it, his sentence originated from some small courtroom in Somewhere, USA, where some person was probably being criminally tried for refusing to accept medical care. That person most likely spent years of his life in litigation, and probably under some surveillance or probation. I would love to read that case.

However, due to the sacrifice of a majority of his life over a few years, the Supreme Court was able to "consider" an important issue- the right to refuse medical care. While it might seem best to make people recieve medical care, to ensure that they are as healthy as they can be, we should be grateful to have this constitutional protection. If this fundamental right were not protected, then the government could force us to go see doctors. And even though the governement would justify this within a standard of strict scrutiny, the right to decide when to be treated is so fundamental that the government should not be allowed to infringe upon it.

And then I realized I actually like con law . . .