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Wed Mar 22, 2023, 10:47 AM Mar 2023

On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided.

Sun Mar 22, 2020: On this day, March 22, 1972, Eisenstadt v. Baird was decided.

Eisenstadt v. Baird

Eisenstadt v. Baird
, 405 U.S. 438 (1972), is a United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples.

The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people for the purpose of preventing pregnancy, ruling that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
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