>ALSBers,

Regarding my question about the background of the Griswold case, I've
had the following replies, for those interested in the topic:

-- PBS did a wonderful program on this topic not too long ago (actually, a bit
broader on the history of contraception as being part of the first and
second waves of feminism in the U.S.) There is probably great information on
the PBS website.  As I recall, there were a number of states with similar
prohibitions -- which went back quite a way.  I believe there was a
connection to the eugenics movement and the fear that since white citizen
women were having children at a much lower rate than immigrant women (who
where, gasp, Catholic).  Interesting that the test case came in what was
then a strong Catholic state.
>
>-- The best source to deal with the kind of questions you are raising is:
>Garrow, David "Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the
>Making of Roe v. Wade" Macmillan (1994) chapters 1,2,3,4. Garrow is
>heavily end noted (200 plus pages) and contains an extensive
bibliography.

Dan Levin
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Daniel A. Levin, JD, MBA
Associate Professor of Business Law
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Dept. of Accounting and Business Law
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Mankato, MN 56001
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