During the legendary Griswold vs. Connecticut Supreme Court case, Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and Planned Parenthood Federation of America released a joint press release announcing plans to move forward with contraceptive care (pictured above).
Today, as Connecticut continues to lead the nation in the fight for reproductive freedom, we honor Estelle Griswold’s legacy of making birth control more accessible by continuing to break down barriers for people to access the sexual and reproductive health care they need.
In 2023, we passed policies that allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives and allow emergency contraception (the “morning-after pill”) to be sold in vending machines making birth control more accessible. We enacted stronger protections for health care providers guaranteed by the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act passed in 2022, strengthened privacy and confidentiality protections for patients, and passed legislation ensuring access to reproductive and gender-affirming care for students at public colleges and universities and young people 15 and under enrolled in HUSKY. These victories, which further broaden the accessibility of birth control and reproductive health care, are built upon the legacy established by Estelle Griswold all those years ago.
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