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Anti-abortion groups have revived the centuries-old law.

A Texas judge is citing the Comstock Act. You should know just how stupid it is.

Portrait of anti-sex activist Anthony Comstock, 1913. | Gado/Getty Images Anthony Comstock, the 19th-century scourge of art and sex, is suddenly relevant…

The problem is that none of these anti-abortion rulings have cared about medical facts.

The Comstock Act is suddenly relevant again thanks to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on the abortion drug mifepristone.

Margaret Sanger, original name Margaret Louisa Higgins, (born September 14, 1879, Corning, New York, U.S.—died September 6, 1966, Tucson, Arizona), founder of the birth control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. She is credited with originating the term birth control. Sanger was the sixth of 11 children. She attended Claverack College and then took nurse’s training in New York at the White Plains Hospital and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Clinic. She was mar...

The decision suspending FDA approval of mifespristone reads like an antiabortion pamphlet and carries a clear message: The judge thinks he won't be held accountable.

The Comstock Act is back. The 19th-century law — signed by President Ulysses Grant in 1873 — is at the heart of a federal judges ruling that strikes down FDA…

A 19th century “anti-vice” law is at the center of a new court ruling that threatens access to the leading abortion drug in the U.S. Dormant for a half-century, the Comstock Act has been revived by anti-abortion groups and conservative states seeking to block the mailing of mifepristone, the pill used in more than half…

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