More Judicial False Starts

In large part because of the frustration of having the substance of its case rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in Tileston v. Ullman, the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut (PPLC) in 1943 turned its attention back to the Connecticut legislature and yet another pending bill to modify the 1879 anticontraception law. The PPLC’s efforts on behalf of this bill were for naught. It passed the Connecticut house by a vote of 155 to 84, but it went down to an overwhelming defeat in the senate. Other modification bills proposed in the late 1940s and early 1950s met similar fates.