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The Constitution was written to give the United States government structure. The Constitution grants rights to the federal government, but also to the individual people. The Griswold v Connecticut case first came about from a law enacted in 1879 by the state of Connecticut. The law stated “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”. This prevented people in the state of Connecticut to be unable to use any type, or method of birth control. It wasn’t until the Griswold v Connecticut case that the law was finally annulled.

Estell Griswold was the executive director of the company Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is an institution that …show more content…

Planned Parenthood had saved many lives and ultimately changed the way the American society thinks about safe sex. The majority of the United States takes Planned Parenthood Institutional teachings reliable, and affective. If this law did succeed against Griswold, the United States as a whole would be different in contraceptives. It would not be a right for both men and women to use contraceptives and protect themselves if it wasn't for Griswold that stood up against the Connecticut law. A devastating impact on society would take away peoples rights to be able to prevent from getting pregnant. If condoms were outlawed, how would the people essentially have prevention from diseases. This is what Griswold stood for and protected the people of Connecticut from. If the law had passed it would have a really detrimental affect on us today, and we are very fortunate that the law that they were proposing does not exist in today’s society. Griswold stood for the people of Connecticut and for the greater good of the American Society. America is forever positively changed since the result of Griswolds actions in

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Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) Facts: Two plaintiff, Griswold and Buxton, were the Executive and Medical Directors for Planned Parenthood League at Connecticut State respectively. They had been accused and later convicted and fined $100 each for violating the Connecticut Comstock Act of 1873. The Act illegalized any use of drugs, medical item, or any other appliance for the purposes of preventing conception. Griswold and Buxton had been found quilt of giving information, medical advices, and counselling to couples about family planning.

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Another relevant United States Supreme Court case is Doe v. Bolton. In 1968 the Georgia legislature passed a law outlawing abortion except where an abortion doctor determines that the continuation of the pregnancy would endanger the mother 's life or seriously and permanently injure her health, that the baby would be born with a grave mental or physical defect, or that the pregnancy resulted from rape. “Mary Doe” (Sandra Cano), who was 9 weeks pregnant filed suit claiming she was entitled to an abortion under the Constitution because she would not be able to support another child since she already had three children. Several abortion doctors, nurses, clergy, and social workers joined in her suit. The Supreme Court agreed and ended up creating

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