There have been many supreme court cases that involve marriages in the United States. Three for example are Griswold v. Connecticut, Loving v. Virginia, and Lawrence v. Texas. Each of these cases have differ from one another but all tie into and issue with marriages. In the case Griswold v. Connecticut, the main issue was the use of birth control by a married woman. Estelle Griswold and Lee Buxton, were arrested 1961 and convicted as “accessories” for providing information, advice and instruction to married couples on how to prevent conception in violation of a state of Connecticut statute. At the time it was illegal for a married couple to use birth control. Buxton and Griswold were the Director and Executive Director for Connecticut’s Planned Parenthood league. Their claim was that couples not being allowed to use a form of birth control was a violation of the 14th Amendment. By definition, the 14th Amendment says, the constitutional amendment that concerns equal protection under the law, and the citizenship rights of Americans. Lower courts ruled in favor of the state. Therefore, it remained illegal for a married woman to use birth control. Griswold then took the case to the supreme court. The case started in early 1965. The Court lists the implied rights protected under each amendment of the Bill of Rights. The 1st Amendment includes the right to associate, the 3rd Amendment prohibits quartering soldiers in a person’s house without their consent, the 4th Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and the …show more content…
The court's recognition of individuals' right to privacy in deciding whether or not to have a child in Griswold became the baseline for future reproductive rights decisions. In Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), the court granted unmarried couples access to contraception’s, and in Roe v. Wade (1973), the court recognized a woman's right to choose