May (Mary) McGee, who died this week, leaves a towering legacy. The legal case she took with her husband Shay led to the assertion in 1973 that section 17 of the 1935 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act prohibiting the sale and importation of contraceptives was unconstitutional.

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