Good News in History, June 7
Fifty years ago on this day, the Supreme Court reached a landmark decision on married couples’ “right to privacy” that effectively legalized the use of contraception. The ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut decided in favor of
Estelle Griswold, who had opened a family-planning clinic in defiance of the then-deeply Catholic state of Connecticut, by striking down the state’s “bedroom patrol laws” against birth control. (1965)
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