Griswold v. Connecticut was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction. The case involved a Connecticut “Comstock law” that prohibited any person from using “any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception”. The Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated marital privacy, establishing the basis for the right to privacy with respect to intimate practices. This and other cases view the right to privacy against government intrusion.