https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt Access to Contraception, Landmark Case en-us 2018-09-12 20:58:23 UTC 2026-03-05 19:07:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282278763 The state of Connecticut had a law stating "any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purposes of preventing conception shall be fined not less than forty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days." ]]> 2018-09-17 13:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282278763 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282281290 2018-09-17 13:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282281290 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282282246 From that point and over the next ten years, the Supreme Court expanded on the right to privacy, going as far as to lift the ban on contraceptives and most abortion. ]]> 2018-09-17 13:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282282246 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282282572 Estelle Griswold, the executive director of Planned Parenthood and Dr. C. Lee Buxton, doctor/professor at Yale Medical School were found guilty of providing contraception and fined $100 each. ]]> 2018-09-17 13:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282282572 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282284802 Griswold and Buxton appealed to the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, saying that the law violated the Constitution. They claimed it vent against the Fourteenth Amendment and a person's right to privacy.]]> 2018-09-17 13:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282284802 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282289510 The Connecticut court upheld the conviction, so Griswold and Buxton took the case to the Supreme Court.]]> 2018-09-17 13:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282289510 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282290678 The Supreme Court upheld that the law violated a married couple's right to privacy in a
7-2 ruling. ]]> 2018-09-17 13:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282290678 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282291768 Judges agreed that said law went against the 'spirit' of the First Amendment (free speech), Third Amendment (prohibition on the forced quartering of troops), Fourth Amendment (freedom from searches and seizures), Fifth Amendment (freedom from self-incrimination), and Ninth Amendment (other rights),]]> 2018-09-17 13:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282291768 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282294346 The opposing judge, Justice Arthur Goldberg, argued that there was no reason to use the Ninth Amendment as verification of a right being stripped by the law. He stated that the Amendment did not entail the specifics of the 'rights' of married couples', therefore there was no concrete reasoning behind its use in defending the Supreme Court's ruling.]]> 2018-09-17 13:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282294346 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282299515 Justice John Marshall Harlan argued that the fundamental right to marital privacy only existed through the eyes and hand of society- and therefore there was nothing in the Constitution that protected a married couple's privacy.]]> 2018-09-17 13:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282299515 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282303655 With the fear of fines and jail time lifted, it was now much safer for women to access contraceptives and abortions, leading to a drop in related deaths.]]> 2018-09-17 13:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/282303655 charlottedrane13 https://padlet.com/charlottedrane13/8n0uf0bbotqt/wish/283085937

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