Rep. Cori Bush Becomes 1st Lawmaker to Call to Repeal the Comstock Act

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The Comstock Act of 1873 made it a federal crime to mail, possess, or sell “obscene materials,” and it specifically calls out drugs or devices used for abortions. The law has, not even if a pregnant person’s life is in danger, and abortion seekers themselves can be charged under it. It wasn’t enforced whileon Twitter after the hearing that Congress needs to repeal Comstock.

Yes, Congress is gridlocked. But enforcing a Victorian-era law would be deeply unpopular and Democrats have a chance to sound the alarm, take action inSome abortion legal scholars have speculated that Democrats haven’t moved to repeal the old law ahead of the Supreme Court case because theyif the public thinks Comstock is legitimate—they’ll try to use it regardless. “Anti-abortion extremists are already hard at work pushing their interpretation of the Act into the mainstream discourse.

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