50 years of legal birth control: How it changed the workplace for women.In 1965, a Supreme Court decision paved the way for contraception access. In an interview, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards reflects on the ruling's ripple effects.Trop...
In 1965 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the one remaining state law (in Connecticut) prohibiting the use of contraceptives. The federal government began to take a more active part in the birth control movement in 1967, when 6% of the funds allotted to the Child Health Act was set ...
It was just five years after the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive in 1960 that birth control became legal nationwide in the U.S. That is why the impact of the pill on the health and lives of women and their families will be forever intertwined with the 1965 U.S. Supreme ...
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
Birth Control Boom and Key Supreme Court Cases In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right of married couples to use birth control was protected under the Constitution’s right to privacy. This ruling did not affect the millions of unmarried women in the...
Did you know that birth control use did not become legal in the United States until 1965? Before then, it was either outlawed or restricted in most states.3But, on June 7, 1965, in the case ofGriswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court ruled that people who were married had the right ...
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision inDobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organizationended the federal right to abortion andleft states to regulatethe service. In hisconcurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said thecourt should revisit other casesthat have created protections for Americans...
According to Rebecca Thimmesch, Campaign Manager of Free the Pill at Advocates for Youth, the FDA decision to put the first birth control pills on the market were still very-much grounded in stigma. “The Supreme Court didn’t legalize birth control use among married couples until 1965, and...
When the Supreme Court overturned its Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion last week, there were a lot of questions. Here's what it means for birth control:
Griswold took her case all the way to the Supreme Court—and on June 7, 1965, she won, legalizing birth control in the state of Connecticut for married couples. Forty-eight years after Griswold v. Connecticut, women across America continue to see the fruits of Griswold's labor: She improv...