The Bill of Rights Institute engages, educates, and empowers individuals with a passion for the freedom and opportunity that exist in a free society. In Griswold v. Connecticut , the Court held that the right of privacy within marriage predated the Constitution. The ruling asserted that the First, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments also protect a right to privacy.
Many married couples came to Planned Parenthood for advice and assistance with birth control. Executive Director Griswold worked with a doctor and Yale Medical School professor to help these couples, even though they knew using birth control was against the law.
They appealed their case to the Supreme Court. Lee Buxton, doctor and professor at Yale Medical School, were arrested and found guilty as accessories to providing illegal contraception. The Connecticut court upheld the conviction, and Griswold and Buxton appealed to the U. Supreme Court, which reviewed the case in Douglas, ruled that the law violated the "right to marital privacy" and could not be enforced against married people.
Advanced Search. The ruling further established the right of privacy in the marital relationship to be an unenumerated right one that is inferred from the language, history, and structure of the Constitution though not expressly mentioned in the text inherent in the meaning of the Ninth Amendment.
Once characterized this way, this right to marital privacy is considered to be one of the fundamental liberties that are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from interference by the states. Thus, the Connecticut law violated the right to privacy within marriage and was found to be unconstitutional.
Connecticut ruling essentially determined that privacy within a marriage is a personal zone off-limits to the government. And it concerns a law which, in forbidding the use of contraceptives rather than regulating their manufacture or sale, seeks to achieve its goals by means having a maximum destructive impact upon that relationship. The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship.
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights… Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. Though the Griswold v. Connecticut ruling legalized the use of contraception, this liberty was only applied to married couples. Therefore, birth control use was still prohibited for individuals who were not married. Baird Supreme Court case decided in ! Griswold v. Connecticut established the right to privacy only pertained to married couples.
In the Eisenstadt v. Baird case, the plaintiff argued that denying unmarried individuals the right to use birth control when married people were allowed to use contraception was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court overturned a Massachusetts law that criminalized the use of contraceptives by unmarried couples. The Court ruled that Massachusetts could not enforce this law against married couples due to Griswold v. Connecticut , so the law functioned as "irrational discrimination" by denying unmarried couples the right to have contraceptives.
Thus, the Eisenstadt v. Baird decision established the right of unmarried people to use contraception on the same basis as married couples.
Connecticut decision has helped to lay the foundation for much of the reproductive freedom currently allowed under the law. Since this ruling, the Supreme Court has cited the right to privacy in numerous Court hearings. Connecticut set the precedent for the total legalization of birth control , as determined in the Eisenstadt v. Baird case.
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