On a warm Monday in June 1965, the Supreme Court declared that married women had the right to use contraceptives. This was a hard-won victory for Estelle Griswold, executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and namesake of the case, Griswold v. Connecticut. She had previously helped displaced persons after World War II and, motivated by her conviction that contraceptives could alleviate poverty and human suffering, fought tirelessly to overturn the birth control laws in Connecticut, then some of the strictest in the country. Her persistence in the face of failed appeals, fines, and even jail time managed to transform contraceptive access from something reserved for well-resourced women to something available for all (married) women. But the legacy she left behind is far greater than the outcome of this single court case and the women her clinic personally helped with family planning. Griswold v. Connecticut set a precedent for the blockbuster reproductive health victories that followed, like Eisenstadt v. Baird, which extended contraceptive access to unmarried women, and Roe v. Wade, which granted women the federal right to an abortion. It also laid the groundwork for future court cases that decriminalized sodomy, same-sex marriage, and interracial marriage. But that wasn’t all. Estelle Griswold’s fight for contraceptive access paved the road for something else, something she couldn’t have imagined at the time: the right to internet privacy.
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