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America’s contentious and continuous political and social fights over abortion could be coming to more city halls and county supervisors meetings as more new battles arise after Supreme Court’s overturning
Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk raised the Comstock Act repeatedly in last week’s hearing for the case challenging FDA approval of mifepristone.
Anti-abortion advocates are trying to revive the long-dormant 1873 Comstock Act, which banned mailing of anything related to abortion or contraception, in a lawsuit about mifepristone, an abortion-inducing drug.
It’s probably the oldest federal law that no one has heard of: Section 1461 of the federal criminal code prohibits using the mail to send or receive “any “article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” First enacted in 1873, this straightforward statute is a potential obstacle to the shift from surgical to chemical abortion. The Biden Justice Department, therefore, has invented a new “interpretation” of this law that would render it unenforceable.
<p>Carolyn Ann Trow Lohman, better known as Madame Restell, defied the authority of the medical establishment and moral crusaders to help women obtain abortions. Justice Alito's misuse of history to justify the Dobbs decision shows the need to remember her. </p>