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A new era for birth control

Explain It to Me

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The History of Contraception Access in the United States

Kiara Bridges is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Griswold v. Connecticut arose after a physician prescribed a contraceptive to a married couple. In 1972, in a case called Eisenstadt v. Baird, the court expanded as holding such that the right to access contraceptives was available to people who were unmarried too.

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