Word: birth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of food, for instance, that we now permit starvation in Biafra. Nor is it for lack of available technology, in the main, that India fails to curb its birth rate. The problem in each case is that people who could do something don't -and won't-and can't realistically be expected...
...industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...
...State of Conn., the U.S. Supreme Court found that "...specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance...." Among these penumbras was a zone of privacy--the marriage relationship. The Court ruled that a Connecticut birth control statute violated the Constitution by invading that zone...
BALLIRO claims that the "right to health, to social and economic well-being and, indeed, the right to life itself," also falls under this shadow--and he says the birth control statutes violate these rights...
...does not reach "illicit intercourse." Balliro did not choose to predict that this argument will convince the court. But the argument does give Balliro a chance to list ways in which the laws impose frightening penalties upon those who are prevented from learning about or from taking advantage of birth control devices. The arguments take up only five pages of an 80-page brief, but a sample shows that they give the reasons behind most of the other legal reasoning...