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Case was an important precedent for Roe v. Wade

Summary: Estelle Griswold, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, was convicted as an accessory for giving a married couple medical information to prevent conception and for prescribing a conceptive to the wife.
The statue of Connecticut deemed it a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent conception.  Griswold argued that the statue violated the 14th amendment.

Outcome: The Supreme Court found the right to privacy to use birth control measures was legitimate and was connected to the rights of privacy as it relates to the 3rd,4th,5th, and 9th amendment.

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Two approaches recognized by the Supreme Court

1. The protected personal interest as "informational privacy," the limiting of others access to and use of an individuals private information.

2. Individual autonomy and freedom from governmental interference in making basic decisions.

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Right of individuals to make informed choices of their own care.

Right to refuse treatment

Right to know outside factors (e.g. research factors, financial considerations

Right to an interpret

Right to advance treatments

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Outcome: Doctor's must disclose all risk to patient's prior to a medical procedure. A patient must give their informed consent.

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Canterbury v. Spence Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained

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Griswold v. Connecticut. (2023, April 18). Retrieved from LexisNexis: https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-griswold-v-connecticut

LexisNexis. (2023, April 19). Roe V. Wade. Retrieved from LexisNexis: https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-roe-v-wade-1664800401

Quimbee. (2021, January 11). Canterbury v. Spence Case Brief Summary | Law Case Explained. Retrieved from Youtube: https://youtu.be/uri0gJDHsSc

Teitelbaum, S. E. (2023). Chapter 6 Individual Rights in Health Care and Public Health. In Essentials of Health Policy and Law Fifth Edition (p. 122). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Teitelbaum, S. E. (2023). Chapter 6 Individuals Rights in Healthcare and Public Health. In Essentials of Health Policy and Law Fifth Edition (pp. 119-123). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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Summary: In the 1970s a single pregnant women challenged the Texas criminal law, which prohibited procuring or attempting an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, expect for for saving a women's life. Roe argued the constitutional right to privacy articulated in Griswold v. Spence included a women's right to choose to obtain an abortion. Henry Wade, Texas district attorney claimed the law was permissible and the state was protecting women from unsafe medical procedures. The case was taken to the U.S Supreme Court.

Outcome: The court ruled women have a right to privacy to decide whether or not to terminate their pregnancy but it is not absolute. State limits were set in place in safeguarding women's health.  The following restrictions are as followed:

For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician.

For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it choses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health

For the stage subsequent to viability, the State, in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary, in appreciate medical judgement, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother(Teitelbaum, 2023).