Flutterby™! : Eisenstadt v. Baird

Reminder: As recently as 1972, you could go to jail in the United States for giving contraception to a single person.

Remember, when they're going after "the right to privacy" in Roe v. Wade, they're really going after the legal concept that was the underpinning of Grisold v. Connecticut(1965), and that decision just made contraception for married couples legal.

Baird is as fiery and eager to talk about the struggle as ever. He continues to be dismayed by individuals who would infringe on the right of women to make their own decisions. When I spoke to him yesterday, he recited a section of Eisenstadt v. Baird from memory: “If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.” That right is young—and still under attack.