In "McGee v. The Attorney General" (1974), the Supreme Court found that provisions of Articles 40 and 41 guaranteed a right to marital privacy, and that contraception on prescription could not be prohibited to a married couple. In "Griswold v. Connecticut" (1965), the United States Supreme Court came to a similar result, before finding for a general right to abortion in the first trimester in "Roe v. Wade" (1973). The Eighth Amendment in 1983 gave constitutional protection to the life of the unborn, and therefore prohibiting abortion. This had been partly to guard against the Supreme Court finding the same right that their American counterparts had.