Reproductive Justice

Notable Supreme Court Cases:

• Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) - this case held that married couples had a constitutional "right to privacy" regarding decisions about childbearing and that a state ban on the sale of contraception was thus unconstitutional.
• Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972) - this case extended the right to contraception to unmarried individuals.
• Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) - the case that held that state bans on abortions were unconstitutional.
• Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) - this case laid out the "undue burden test," under which state regulations can survive constitutional review so long as they do not place a "substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a nonviable fetus."
• Stenberg v. Carhart (Carhart I), 530 U.S. 914 (2000) - this case struck down a Nebraska "partial-birth abortion" law because it did not include a health exception and it posed an undue burden on women who needed second-trimester abortions as it banned the most common second-trimester method.
• Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (Carhart II), 550 U.S. 124 (2007) - this case upheld a federal ban - the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003."