Estelle Griswold

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Who is Estelle Griswold?

Estelle Naomi Trebert Griswold was a civil rights activist and feminist most commonly known as a defendant in the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, in which contraception for married couples was legalized in the state of Connecticut, setting the precedent of the right to privacy. Griswold served as the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood in New Haven when she and Yale Professor C. Lee Buxton opened a birth control clinic in New Haven in an attempt to change the Connecticut law banning contraception. Their actions set into motion legislation that resulted in both Poe v. Ullman and Griswold v. Connecticut.

Griswold's personal role in both cases was vital to achieving success and starting a women's rights revolution that went on to aid the support for such cases as Roe v. Wade.

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Born
Jun 8, 1900
Hartford
Died
Mar 28, 2024

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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