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In the 2003 case Lawrence v.Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot decide to criminalize the private sexual behavior of any American, including those who may be gay or lesbian.In so doing, justices overturned ______________________, a case decided seventeen years before.


A) Bowers v.Hardwick, which declared that gays and lesbians had no privacy rights
B) Bowers v.Hardwick, in which the Court ruled that the Constitution did not confer upon gays and lesbians any fundamental right to engage in sexual activity
C) Furman v.Georgia, in which the Court held that gays and lesbians had no privacy rights
D) Texas v.Johnson, in which the Court held that lesbians did not have any fundamental right to privately obtain contraception

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