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Griswold, Estelle
Born: 1900 AD
Died: 1981 AD, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1981 AD, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US family planning activist
as executive director of Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, opened birth control clinic in New Haven 1961
arrested and convicted for dispensing contraceptives in violation of state law
successful appellant in Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut 1965
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