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“In a town where people get easily offended by the sound of wind chimes, public officials should be careful not to overreact to someone’s personal sensitivities, including their own. The

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It appears that Anthony Comstock is having something of a revival in Oklahoma. The founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice fought to criminalize the mailing of any obscene work, a broadly define category that included protected political speech. Now, a  bill not only contains an expansive definition of lewd material but…

Abortion foes are trying to weaponize the Comstock Act, a draconian 19th-century law still on the books, in ways that could make it the greatest threat to reproductive rights in America, write law professors David S. Cohen, Greer Donley and Rachel Rebouché, who argue the law must be repealed as soon as possible. Allowing it to remain on the books is too dangerous and the stakes are too high, they say.

Abortion foes are trying to weaponize the Comstock Act, a draconian 19th-century law still on the books, in ways that could make it the greatest threat to reproductive rights in America, write law professors David S. Cohen, Greer Donley and Rachel Rebouché, who argue the law must be repealed as soon as possible. Allowing it to remain on the books is too dangerous and the stakes are too high, they say.