The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold

By Heather Munro Prescott 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.

The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution

By Beth Bailey 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.

Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut

By Linda Gordon 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.