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Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

FB 106: An ‘Uncommonly Silly’ Law: How One Man’s Crusade Against Obscenity Resulted in Abortion Rights

Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

iHeartPodcasts and OZY

Society & Culture, History

4.6818 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The backlash to a 19th century chastity law ended up sparking a far more controversial new freedom for women.

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March, 1965. The United States was in the middle of a massive civil rights movement,

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but the U.S. Supreme Court was hearing a challenge to a law that was almost a century old.

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The case was called Griswold v. Connecticut. It concerned a ban on the use of all contraception in the state of Connecticut, even by married couples. And the lawyers attempting to defend a law that made it

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a crime to use birth control? Well, they had their work cut out for them. During oral arguments,

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Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart grilled one of those lawyers about the purpose of that

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contraception ban.

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