07-21-2003, 01:15 AM
Griswold can only be considered honest if his prices are matched up against Wirt's! Trust me, I do not shed tears while pelting arrows at his zombified carcass.
I have to correct myself. I have not read Griswold (1965) itself for some time. It is not the first time the Court addressed the issue of the right to privacy, but it is the first time that right was brought up in a case involving sex. Mrs. Estelle Griswold was director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. She was convicted under the accessory provisions of a Connecticut statute forbidding the use of contraceptives for birth control. (Translation: she gave medical advice to a couple and prescribed condoms.)
The Court found that the Fourth Amendment's right of Due Process (no "unreasonable searches or seizures" without "due process of law") and the First Amendment's right of association created an umbrella of privacy around individual beliefs and actions, and applied that umbrella to cover the marital bed.
Connecticut's statute only forbade the sale or use of contraceptives for birth control. It was perfectly legal to buy and use a condom in order to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, even if that was only a thinly disguised cover for their actual use. In actual practice, the law was used as a cover to shut down public birth control clinics in Connecticut while allowing an "out" for more affluent women to obtain contraceptives through more discreet private physicians.
I have to correct myself. I have not read Griswold (1965) itself for some time. It is not the first time the Court addressed the issue of the right to privacy, but it is the first time that right was brought up in a case involving sex. Mrs. Estelle Griswold was director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. She was convicted under the accessory provisions of a Connecticut statute forbidding the use of contraceptives for birth control. (Translation: she gave medical advice to a couple and prescribed condoms.)
The Court found that the Fourth Amendment's right of Due Process (no "unreasonable searches or seizures" without "due process of law") and the First Amendment's right of association created an umbrella of privacy around individual beliefs and actions, and applied that umbrella to cover the marital bed.
Connecticut's statute only forbade the sale or use of contraceptives for birth control. It was perfectly legal to buy and use a condom in order to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, even if that was only a thinly disguised cover for their actual use. In actual practice, the law was used as a cover to shut down public birth control clinics in Connecticut while allowing an "out" for more affluent women to obtain contraceptives through more discreet private physicians.