Illinois seeks library pledge against 'banning' books
Illinois' new secretary of state and Democrats in the General Assembly are pushing back against a rise in challenges to books shelved in libraries.
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Illinois' new secretary of state and Democrats in the General Assembly are pushing back against a rise in challenges to books shelved in libraries.
The ruling against an FDA-approved abortion pill relies on an 1873 obscenity law that bans mailing of “lascivious, filthy or file” materials.
How the right is using a 150-year-old law to try to ban abortion pills.
The Comstock Act of 1873 is a relic, the work of an anti-vice crusader, Anthony Comstock, who lobbied Congress to prohibit, among other things, the mailing of any “obscene, lewd,
Abortion opponents have resurrected the Comstock Act to falsely claim that medication abortion pills can't be mailed out.