 He argued that the Court was "imposing its own philosophical predilections" on the state in this exercise of judicial power, although its historic "allergy to substantive due process" would never permit it to strike down a state's economic regulatory law in such a manner.In the same vein, he dissented in the controversial 1973 case "Roe v. Wade".But White voted to strike down a state ban on contraceptives in the 1965 case of "Griswold v. Connecticut", although he did not join the majority opinion, which famously asserted a "right of privacy" on the basis of the "penumbras" of the Bill of Rights.