Commentary: Putting religious group's campaign against contraception into context

By Sarah Lipton-Lubet | American Civil Liberties Union

First marketed in 1960, the birth control pill soon became the most popular form of contraception in the United States.

However, the pill was still not available to every woman who wanted it. Religious groups lobbied in favor of laws that banned all contraception, and it was not until 1965 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Griswold v. Connecticut, that the right to contraception was protected by the Constitution.

Today, virtually all sexually active women — no matter what their religion — have used contraception.