Privacy Rights and Public Families

Introduction: The Right to Privacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 I. The New York State Prenatal Care Assistance Program . . . . 124 R A. Nutritional Risk Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 R B. Psychosocial Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 R C. Additional Required Consultations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 R 1. Medicaid Financial Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 R 2 Nurse/Health Educators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 R D. Other States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 R II. A Brief History of the Right to Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 R A. From Griswold to Eisenstadt Through Casey, or From Entity Privacy to Individual Privacy Through Individual Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 R B. Privacy to Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 R C. The Persistence of Entity Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 R III. Entity Privacy and “Public Families” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 R A. Theorizing (and Justifying) Entity Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 R B. The Myth of Entity Privacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 R IV. The Overwhelming of Rights by State Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 R V. The Bartering of “Rights” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 R Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 R