Baird v. Eisenstadt decision overrules the conviction of birth control advocate Bill Baird.

Supreme Court overrules the 1967 conviction of William Baird for distributing a contraceptive device to an unmarried Boston University coed. The decision also strikes down Massachusetts’ so-called “Crimes Against Chastity” law, Justice. In a decision written by justice William Brennan Jr., the court declares, “If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.”