A provision in the Communications Decency Act making it a felony to talk about abortion online has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced by a future GOP president?
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A provision in the Communications Decency Act making it a felony to talk about abortion online has been on hold since the Clinton administration. Could it be enforced by a future GOP president?
Elinor Glyn said: Velvet. Rose petals. Candles. Hollywood listened.
“A bloody ending to a bloody life,” was the reaction of Anthony Comstock, an anti-vice activist, upon hearing the news.
<p>I spoke to Dr. Kelly O'Donnell and Professor Lauren MacIvor Thompson, two experts on reproductive history, to learn how the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson</em> decision could affect birth control access and about birth control history in general.</p>
In 1916, Sanger opened the country’s first family planning clinic. It cost 10 cents, and for a dime, any woman who wanted it could get information from a trained nurse—information impossible to find anywhere else: a medically accurate explanation of how the reproductive system works, and instructions on how to use contraceptives. All of it was illegal.