Griswold v.

State of Connecticut

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. Estelle Griswold, the executive director of the
Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and Lee Buxton, a
physician and professor at Yale Medical School who served as Medical
Director for the League, were convicted as accessories to the crime of
providing married couples information about contraception and in some
cases writing prescriptions for contraceptive devices for the woman. At
the time of their arrests (1961), Connecticut law made it a crime for any
person to use a device or drug to prevent conception, and it was also a
crime for any person to assist, abet, counsel, cause, or command
another to do the same. The defendants were found guilty of such
assistance and fined $100 each.
In its judgment the Supreme Court ruled that Connecticut’s birth
control law was unconstitutional based on rights set down in the Fourth
and Fifth amendments that protect an individual’s home and private life
from interference by the government. Judging marriage to be a sacred
and private bond that lies within a zone of privacy guaranteed by
several provisions within the constitution, namely the concept of liberty
implied in the Bill of Rights, the Court found that the original decision
against Griswold and Buxton should be overturned, and that citizens in
the state of Connecticut should enjoy the freedom to use birth control
within the bonds of marriage. In his concurring opinion, Associate
Justice Arthur Goldberg also asserted the Ninth Amendment—which
had lain dormant for much of U.S. constitutional history—as a basis for
the decision, arguing:
 The language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that the
Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional
fundamental rights, protected from governmental infringement, which
exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the
first eight constitutional amendments.
This particular privacy case has been cited in other important
Supreme Court judgments, including Roe v. Wade and Planned
Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania et al. v. Casey, governor of
Pennsylvania, et al.

01 – Sobre o que é o caso Grimswold vs State of Connecticut?

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02 – Por qual crime Estelle Grimswold e Lee Buxton foram condenados?
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03 – O que a lei de Connecticut dizia em 1961 sobre métodos contraceptivos?
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04 – Qual o posicionamento da Suprema Corte em relação ao caso?
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