Privacy, Birth Control and an Uncommonly Silly Law

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THE Supreme Court of the United States has, after many years of on-again, off-again litigation, struck down as unconstitutional the Connecticut statute barring the use of contraceptive devices or drugs. The case before the court, Griswold v. the State of Connecticut,1 involved a planned-parenthood clinic that was giving information and medical service to married couples on the best contraceptive materials for their personal use.Connecticut is the only state in the union with a law barring the use of contraceptives. Furthermore, the Supreme Court treated the case throughout as involving the privacy of married couples, the very status of . . .

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