Anti-abortion legal strategy revives Comstock moral purity laws of late 1800s thecherrycreeknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thecherrycreeknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When officials in a small New Mexico city sued the governor and attorney general over their ordinance placing restrictions on abortion clinics earlier this month, they argued that a late 19th century …
The Comstock Act of 1873 bans the mailing of anything “obscene, lewd, lascivious” or considered morally impure, including abortifacients or abortion-related materials.