Happy B-Day Griswold (You Know What Griswold Is... Right ?) !!!

[WillyT]

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965),<1> was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy".

Although the Bill of Rights does not explicitly mention "privacy," Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the majority that the right was to be found in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional protections. Justice Arthur Goldberg wrote a concurring opinion in which he used the Ninth Amendment to defend the Supreme Court's ruling. Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote a concurring opinion in which he argued that privacy is protected by the due process clause of t Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Byron White also wrote a concurrence based on the due process clause.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

And in celebrating Griswold...

Link ("Every Sperm Is Sacred"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8

Link: ("The Galaxy Song"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY

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:hi:

[WillyT]

1. Kick...

:kick:

[tularetom]

2. Well, truthfully, no, not until just now

Thanks for cluing me in.

I DO know who Clark Griswold is however.

[WillyT]

3. He's Why They Created Birth Control...

:shrug:

:D

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. You mean Clark W. Griswold?

:hi:

[Octafish]

4. USA PATRIOT Act did a number on Griswold.

[kestrel91316]

5. Far more important than Roe v Wade, IMHO. Think on it for a moment, people.

Try to imagine a world in which NO birth control is legal.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. We might be headed in that direction

If the religious right gets enough states to allow their crotch-sniffing busybody "pharmacists" to be able to deny women their duly prescribed birth control (though I would think that there are still a lot of REPUBLICAN women that like their birth control pills too).

[StarsInHerHair]

8. k & r