On June 7, 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court found married couples had a right to privacy in the US Constitution in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut. The case involved an 1879 Connecticut law which prohibited the use of contraceptives. The decision was passed by a vote of 7:2. However, one of the dissenting judges, Justice Stewart, described the statute as being ‘an uncommonly silly law’, although he held that it was constitutional.

The decision enabled planned-parenthood advocate Estelle Griswold to sell birth control pills legally; she had earlier been doing so illegally.

The American Life League has chosen June 7 to be ‘Protest the Pill Day ’08: The Pill Kills Babies’. The organisation is a radical pro-’life’ organisation which is committed to telling people that birth control pills supposedly kill babies.