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Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction. [1]
Griswold v. State of Connecticut, legal case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 7, 1965, that found in favour of the constitutional right of married persons to use birth control. The state case was originally ruled in favour of the plaintiff, the state of Connecticut.
Griswold v. Connecticut: A right to privacy can be inferred from several amendments in the Bill of Rights, and this right prevents states from making the use of contraception by married couples illegal.
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The Supreme Court concluded that the Connecticut law, as applied to married couples, violated the Fourteenth Amendment because their use of contraception fell within the “zone of privacy” protected by various guarantees in the Bill of Rights.
In Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), the Supreme Court invalidated a Connecticut law that made it a crime to use birth control devices or to advise anyone about their use.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) was a Supreme Court case that famously inferred that a right to privacy existed within the Constitution, which does not explicitly exist in the document.