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Eisenstadt v. Baird

In this 1972 case, the United States Supreme Court held that single persons possess the same privacy right earlier extended to married couples under Griswold. The ruling struck down a Massachusetts law that made it a felony to distribute contraceptives to unmarried persons. In the ruling, the Court stated that "if the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or begat a child."blank" rel="nofollow">Roe v. Wade but it defended the right of the states to impose these sorts of restrictions, and it criticized the inflexibility of the trimester framework established in the 1973 ruling.

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