Event Title
Griswold v. Connecticut: A Study of Resistance to Sexual Revolution in Connecticut, 1961
Start Date
29-4-2014 9:00 AM
End Date
29-4-2014 10:15 AM
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Social History | United States History | Women's History
Subjects
Contraception -- Connecticut -- History -- 20th century, Birth control -- Connecticut -- Law and legislation, Birth control -- Government policy -- Influence of Protestantism on, Christianity and politics -- Connecticut -- History, Protestantism -- Political aspects -- 20th century
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/11207
Included in
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, Women's History Commons
Griswold v. Connecticut: A Study of Resistance to Sexual Revolution in Connecticut, 1961
Description
In 1965, the last remaining anticontraceptive law in the United States was made unconstitutional in Griswold v. Connecticut. Despite widespread acceptance of the use of contraceptives, Connecticut legislatures put up incredible resistance to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and subsequent demand that the statute--outlawing individual use of contraceptives--be removed. This paper asserts Connecticut's foundation as a haven for Protestant values as the reason for this determined resistance to the acceptance of contraceptives.