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Comstock Act – Page 3 – No Rights To Speak Of

“American women are not stupid”: Warren isn’t buying that Trump would veto a federal abortion ban

After Welker pointed out that it seemed Warren wasn’t buying Trump and Vance’s spin on this, she stomped down even harder, saying, “Don’t buy it? Just read it. JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice to enforce the Comstock Act. And remember he did that, and then Donald Trump … Read more

Project 2025 is largely done and ready to go if Trump is elected

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans But then again, his resignation was at least partly symbolic: The work of Project 2025 is largely done. Under Dans, the project has assembled a database of more than 10,000 names — job candidates vetted for loyalty to Trump’s cause — who will be ready to deploy … Read more

JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions

But in January 2023, Vance signed ont o a letter urging the Department of Justice to use the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-obscenity law, to ban the mailing of abortion pills nationwide. Since Roe’s fall, anti-abortion activists have begun claiming that the Comstock Act remains good law and can be used to enforce a federal … Read more

Texas city to vote on ban on people helping patients traveling for abortion

Come November, residents of Amarillo, Texas, will vote on an ordinance that would declare Amarillo a “sanctuary city for the unborn” and ban people from helping patients travel through Amarillo to access abortions – what the ordinance calls “abortion trafficking”. It would also ban people from possessing or distributing abortion pills within Amarillo city limits. … Read more

Trump and the GOP support the dangerous Project 2025 – news round-up

“Coast-to-coast abortion desert”: Experts slam media for claiming GOP “softened” abortion platform As for increasing access to birth control: No one, least of all a member of a GOP platform committee, actually thinks the Republican Party will do anything to promote the use of condoms or other forms of contraception. The Heritage Foundation, the hard-right … Read more

Project 2025 shows Trump and GOP are “obsessed” with abortion and “controlling our bodies”: expert

If Trump wins in November, there could be nowhere for them to go, at least in the United States. That would mean more women dying: Research suggests maternal mortality would jump 24% if Republicans pass and Trump signs into law a national abortion ban. More children would die too: After Texas imposed its abortion ban, … Read more

Democrats, worried about future of medication abortion, push to repeal Comstock Act

The blueprint, referring to Comstock’s place in federal law, calls for “announcing a campaign to enforce the criminal prohibitions in 18 U.S. Code §§ 1461 and 1462 Against Providers and Distributors of Abortion Pills That Use the Mail.” It states: “Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, there is now no federal prohibition on the … Read more

With the Supreme Court’s help, Republicans’ plan to resurrect “zombie laws”

There are a lot of zombie laws on the books that are likely to be used by conservative judicial activists in the next few years now that they’ve secured the right-wing Supreme Court of their dreams. For instance, there are existing, unenforced laws against adultery, atheism and sodomy which could easily be reanimated under some of the right’s current … Read more

Democrats try to repeal Comstock Act

Democrats target 150-year-old ‘zombie law,’ warning the GOP could use it to ban abortion Senators are seeking to repeal the Comstock Act of 1873 as reproductive rights supporters fear a future president could use it as a back door to curtail abortion nationwide. Read more at NBC News Democrats move to repeal 1873 law they … Read more