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QUINCY — An ordinance designed to restrict health care providers from setting up in the city of Quincy was narrowly after a more than three-hour city council meeting featuring emotional

To be sure, organizations like Planned Parenthood could still set up shop for other aspects of their taxpayer-funded operation. Since City Council members are acting under the auspices of their office and the city, they are protected from civil suit.

Upholding the Comstock Act, a federal law, in the face of a state’s failure to adhere to said law is the duty and obligation of every publicly elected official. This ordinance will only take effect should Comstock be

This year is on pace to set the record for the highest number of attempted book bans since the American Library Association began compiling data on library censorship more than

While I do understand that the state of Illinois passed the Reproductive Health Act in 2019, that does not change the fact that Congress passed the Comstock Act in 1873.

Long before the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), Bexis was concerned that FDCA preemption would be…

Libraries have always been on the front lines of the conflict between censorship and free speech.

This year is on pace to set the record for the highest number of attempted book bans since the American Library Association began compiling data on library censorship more than 20 years ago. Last year, there were demands to censor more than 2,500 library books. In several states, legislatures have enacted censorship into law. In […]

"As librarians know, the loss of this intellectual freedom would be catastrophic to American culture and democracy."

A Texas judge points to a long history of restricting free speech — regardless of whether kids are in the picture.