This is the only Supreme Court precedent to consider the positive right to procreate.

In this case, the Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, finding it acceptably narrow in its scope and effect.

Between 1900 and 1963 approximately this many people were sterilized in the United States as part of the eugenics movement.

After Roe v. Wade, this case confirmed the State’s power to restrict abortion after fetal viability.

Violations of prohibitory laws, revenue acts, embezzlement, and political offenses were exempt from this Act.

The criminal contraception statutes in both Griswold and Eisenstadt derived from this 1873 Act.

Despite the severe criticism this case has received, it has never been explicitly overturned, and in fact, it was cited favorably in Roe v. Wade.

In Casey, the court eliminated this framework in favor of an "undue burden" standard.

Skinner v. Oklahoma relied on this clause of the 14th Amendment to support its holding, while all future cases relied on the Due Process Clause.

These five Amendments, as applied in Griswold v. Connecticut, extended the right to privacy to protect the right to use contraception.