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The Supreme Court appears ready to rule against a lawsuit that could have curtailed a major abortion medication, but no matter what the court decides, American women will keep taking it

The civil liberties lawyer talks to Reason about the misguided impulse to attack free speech in the name of protecting women.

Abortion-rights supporters breathed a collective sigh of relief last week after oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case attempting to limit womens access to a drug routinely used in early-term medication abortions.

The civil liberties lawyer talks to Reason about the misguided impulse to attack free speech in the name of protecting women.

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By: Jonathan Turley | April 1, 2024 Read more at https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/01/the-return-of-anthony-comstock-the-abortion-pill-case-raises-a-law-with-a-dark-and-troubling-past/ Below is my column in the Hill on the return of the Comstock Act to the national debate. The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The history of the Act, and its…

The Comstock Act is a major concern if Donald Trump is re-elected.

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Contraception and reproductive rights are facing a new line of attack thanks to an archaic law. Call for a repeal of this insidious targeting of freedom.

The Supreme Court appears unlikely to create further abortion restrictions in its upcoming ruling about the safety of mifepristone. But another threat to abortion access — from a Trump White House — is far more likely to succeed.