AP: Illinois seeks library pledge against 'banning' books
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois' new secretary of state and Democrats in the General Assembly are pushing back against a
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Michelle Goldberg: The Comstock Act — how a 150-year-old law restricts women's rights today
Anthony Comstock, the mutton-chopped anti-vice crusader for whom the Comstock Act is named, is back from the dead.
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Goldberg: The hideous resurrection of the Comstock Act
Just a year ago, the idea of a judge using the Comstock Act to halt medication abortion...
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Illinois seeks library pledge against 'banning' books
Springfield, Ill. (AP) — Illinois' new secretary of state and Democrats in the General Assembly are pushing back against a rise in challenges to books shelved in libraries. Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who is also the state librarian, is spearheading legislation that would make state grants to libraries contingent on their establishing "a written policy prohibiting the practice of banning books." At stake is about $61 million annually to 1,600 public and school libraries. The legislation, HB2789, sponsored by Naperville Democratic Rep. Anne Stava-Murray, won House app...
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The Texas anti-abortion ruling owes a lot to a 19th century anti-LGBTQ law
The same law that blocks mailing the abortion drug branded anything gay as obscene for decades.
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