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Antiabortion forces are trying to use the antiquated Comstock Act to justify a national abortion ban. But if the Supreme Court is true to its own reasoning, that won't fly

“Since Roe v. Wade, Republicans by and large want to bury their heads in the sand, hoping that nobody is really paying attention. But that’s not what’s happening. Millions of

The justices could decide to revive a Victorian-era vice law that bans the mailing of abortion materials entirely.

“Since Roe v. Wade, Republicans by and large want to bury their heads in the sand, hoping that nobody is really paying attention. But that’s not what’s happening. Millions of

The legal conflict over the Food and Drug Administration’s lax regulation of abortion drugs is getting more complicated by the day as a lawsuit winds its way through the federal courts. Did the FDA skip critical steps to quickly approve the drugs, and did it illegally loosen important safety restrictions later on? Let’s sort it out. The Timeline

Mercury News Letters to the Editor for April 18, 2023

On April 7, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas issued a ruling striking down the FDA’s authorization of mifepristone, a drug used for medication […]

Doesnt make sense under our current reading of this very old 18 73 law called the comstock act, so i think for all those reasons and the reason again that we default to keeping the status quo while cases are appealed, it would make no sense for the court to do anything but just pause this ruling and jessica anti abortion doctors urged the supreme court tuesday to keep mitchell chris tone. restrictions in place and justices will decide by midnight thursday whether to do that. what would be the co...

Anthony Comstock’s crusade against women gained him the moniker of ‘moral eunuch’. Today’s anti-choice zealots are following in his footsteps

When they overturned Roe, the court said they would return the question to the people. What does that really mean?