Anti-abortion activists plan backdoor strategy to US ban
A federal abortion ban won’t pass Congress. But activists hope a 19th Century law could be enforced to halt the procedure.
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A federal abortion ban won’t pass Congress. But activists hope a 19th Century law could be enforced to halt the procedure.
What Is the Comstock Act of 1873? And what does it have to do with the Supreme Court's mifepristone abortion pill hearing and ruling? A legal expert explains.
The law prevents the mailing of drugs used for abortions.
Hearing on mifepristone most consequential abortion-related case since overturning of Roe v Wade nearly two years ago
Donald Trump’s lawyer really, really, hopes that Donald Trump doesn’t blow up their plan to ban abortion nationally by talking about it publicly before the election—at least according to the aforementioned Trump lawyer, speaking to The New York Times. Why Jonathan Mitchell, the conservative attorney from Texas, would boast in a national newspaper about a plan that he also supposedly hopes doesn’t become a campaign issue is unclear. Why he is using an open media channel to muse about what his cli