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Essay on The Impact of Supreme Court Case
"Griswold v. Connecticut" on American politics
In this 1965 decision, the Supreme Court expanded the constitutional right of privacy. An 1879 Connecticut law forbade any use of contraception or the assisting of anyone seeking contraception. Under this statute two officers of the Planned Parenthood League were convicted of providing contraceptive information to married couples. Griswold v. Connecticut appealed to the Supreme Court on errors of the state court of Connecticut.
This case deals with the right to prescribe the use of birth control to a married female. This action is found unconstitutional under the state laws, but this law invades a person’s rights under the constitution. On appeal, the Supreme Court overturned the convictions, ruling that the law was unconstitutional. Justice William O. Douglas's majority opinion identified ways in which the First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution provided degrees of privacy. Further, Douglas maintained that married people's right of privacy predated the Bill of Rights; laws invading this right were unconstitutional on their face. He also raised the specter of police raids on marital bedrooms for contraception evidence if the law were allowed to stand. A concurring opinion by Justice Arthur Goldberg, joined by Justices Earl Warren and William Brennan, located the right to marital privacy in the rarely invoked Ninth Amendment, which states that the fact that a particular right is not mentioned in the Constitution does not mean that it can be curtailed by government. (Brief for Appellee at 9, Griswold (No. 496))
The Connecticut law was a serious invasion of the plaintiffs' right to enjoy sexual activity. Neither of the women wanted to run the risk of pregnancy, but at the same time they did not want to give up their sexual life. They could enjoy sex without the threat of pregnancy only if they could use contraceptives. The laws direct interference with the women's right to engage in safe sexual activity was a distinctive and profound invasion by the state into a decision that should belong to individuals alone....
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