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Such a decision would leave in place the current rules that allow patients to receive the drug through the mail, without any need for an in-person visit with a doctor, and to take the medication to induce an abortion through 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush (Mo.) called for the Comstock Act to be repealed following the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over mifepristone Tuesday, calling the 1873 bill a “zombie statute.” The Supreme Court heard arguments from the federal government and Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions to…

What Is the Comstock Act of 1873? And what does it have to do with the Supreme Courts mifepristone abortion pill hearing and ruling? A legal expert explains.

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dust off 150-year-old Comstock Act to target abortion rights

'A nationwide legislative assembly'

A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday of the idea of a nationwide ban or new limits on mifepristone, the primary drug used for medication abortions.

The majority of justices appeared skeptical that an anti-abortion doctors association had the ability to sue to block the distribution of mifepristone.

Even the court’s more conservative members had tough questions for lawyers for a group trying to restrict access to medication abortions

The law prevents the mailing of drugs used for abortions.

Conservatives Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas asked about a zombie law activists see as a de facto national abortion ban