feb 5, 1965 - Griswold v. Connecticut

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Ruled that “that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance. Various guarantees create zones of privacy.” This decision defining a “right of privacy” based on the “emanations from” specific rights mentioned in the Constitution provided the intellectual and legal basis for “rights” asserted in the later Roe v. Wade decision

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