Through its reimagined version of the Comstock Act, the right wing seeks to enforce a traditional view of women and their roles, sexual purity and societal control over reproduction, a view that limits what people can say and think, as well as what they can do. In the era of “Don’t Say Gay” mandates and book bans, its reemergence tells us a great deal about what kind of democracy some of Dobbs’ proponents have in mind for the years to come.
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