#women #abortion #comstockAct
https://hartmannreport.com/p/anthony-comstock-is-reaching-up-out?utm_medium=email&action=share

#ComstockAct…so woefully outdated and yet…https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/anthony-comstock-is-reaching-up-out?utm_source=direct&r=gnn40&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Before the TX case that tried to ban #mifepristone, I thought the #ComstockAct had been repealed ages ago. Turns out, it just hasn’t been enforced in recent decades. Right-wingers are trying to change that and use it to ban medication #abortion and #GenderAffirmingCare even in states that protect them.
https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/04/28/anti-abortion-legal-strategy-revives-comstock-moral-purity-laws-of-late-1800s/?utm_source=optout

Jennifer Rubin: Right-wing judges may cripple the #GOP

"U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s widely panned ruling blocking the Food and Drug Administration’s approval more than 20 years ago of an effective and safe medication, #mifepristone used both for medical abortions and to treat miscarriages, is another in a string of decisions from right-wing judges that may well boomerang on the #MAGA movement. The decisions have revealed its true reactionary face."

#FDA #Kacsmaryk #abortion #uspolitics #comstockact #griswoldvconnecticut
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/11/right-wing-judges-undermine-gop

@gwaldby Another data point:
The judge freezing use of abortion pills nation wide is citing the Comstock Act as a reason not to allow mailing mifepristone, which was overturned by a Supreme Court decision nearly 60 years ago.

If we’re going to start enforcing the Comstock Act again, the USPS is going to be opening your mail to go through it to make sure there is nothing “lewd or lascivious”, “immoral” or “indecent”. Just wait until you hear who gets to decide if your mail is immoral or not… Louis DeJoy!

The Act criminalized any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items: obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual content
#ComstockLaws #Comstock #ComstockAct

So of *course* #Texas Conservatives are trying to invoke the long-moribund #ComstockAct in their war on #abortion .

The Comstock Act, of course, banned anything going through the mails related to abortion -- or #contraception -- or, for that matter, any “#obscene , #lewd or #lascivious” writings.

Because a goodly number of those anti-abortion folk want , too.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/20/texas-fda-abortion-pill-comstock-act/

“Because of the geographic location, it’s essentially become like the back alley abortion clinic for the entire state of Texas.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bmxn/future-of-abortion-war-is-in-new-mexico
#News #worldnews #texas #NEWMEXICO #abortionpills #abortionrestrictions #comstockact #roev.wade