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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson zeroed in on this admission.

Supreme Court arguments in a medicated abortion case are shining a spotlight on a key federal obscenity law.

The court’s two most conservative justices signaled their belief that abortion could be effectively banned across the country via the 1873 Comstock Act.

Their questions about the Comstock Act did not go unnoticed.

The abortion and miscarriage care drug mifepristone is at the center of a case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court that seeks to limit access to it. Here is a history of the drug and what's happening now that the Supreme Court has overturned national abortion rights.

Abortion rights supporters are sounding the alarm that conservative Supreme Court justices want to use a long-dormant law to enforce a nationwide abortion ban. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act during oral arguments Tuesday in a case about the constitutionality of the Biden administration’s efforts to expand access to…

As mifepristone — a drug used in medical abortions — is under attack, lawmakers ignore the spike in maternal deaths since 2019, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham.

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Imagine what most Americans would make of it if an already unpopular Supreme Court interpreted a law from 1873 as a sweeping, punitive zombie abortion ban.

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in bid to ban abortion pills.