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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:07 PM Mar 2020

On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided.

1972.

Eisenstadt v. Baird

Eisenstadt v. Baird
, 405 U.S. 438 (1972), is a United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples.

The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people for the purpose of preventing pregnancy, ruling that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
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On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 OP
Conservative SCOTUS will overturn that. Frasier Balzov Mar 2020 #1
Wanna bet? NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 #2
It's going the way of Griswold v. Connecticut. Frasier Balzov Mar 2020 #3
Nowhere. NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 #4
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