Griswold v Connecticut essays

Griswold v Connecticut essays Griswold v. Connecticut appealed to the Supreme Court on errors of the state court of Connecticut. This case deals with the right to prescribe the use of birth control to a married female. This action is found unconstitutional under the state laws, but this law invades a persons rights under the constitution. Here the problem evolves and must be decided upon in the courts. The appellant Griswold is an Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut (Janosik, 1035). Appellant Buxton is a licensed physician and a professor at Yale Medical School who served as Medical Director for the League at its center in New Haven. This center was opened for ten days in November of 1961, until the appellants were arrested (Rice, 187). The appellants were tried in the state court and decided that the state laws contradicted several rights in the constitution. The two Connecticut laws state: Any person who uses any drug, medical article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year or both be fined and imprisoned (Rice, 187). Any person who resist, abets, counsels, causes, hires, or commands another to commit any offense may be prosecuted and punished as if he were the principal offender (Rice, 188). In the Connecticut court decision, the appellants were found guilty as accessories and fined one hundred dollars each, against the claim that the accessory ordinance as applied, violated several amendments. The Connecticut statues forbidding use of contraceptives violates the right of birth control to married persons which is guaranteed through the Bill of Rights in the Constitution for American citizens (Rice, 188). The appellants are guaranteed fundamental rights through the Constitution to prescribe birth control to married people if they are involved in a legal relationsh...