The Texas Abortion-Pill Ruling Signals Pro-Lifers’ Next Push Kacsmaryk’s unprecedented ruling, however, is not just a bid to block access to abortion pills. It is an open invitation to anti-abortion-rights groups to use the Comstock Act—a law passed 150 years ago and rarely enforced in the past century—to seek a nationwide federal ban on all … Read more
He says that if New Mexico tries to overturn these ordinances, anti-abortion advocates will take the fight to the courts. And he hopes that a conservative majority supreme court will see it his way and require the enforcement of the Comstock Act nationwide. Read more at The Guardian
“We’re at a moment of really almost unprecedented uncertainty in the United States when it comes to abortion,” Ziegler says. “Lots of people are waking up to the reality that what was a constitutional right not very long ago is now a crime in large swaths of the country.” Read more National Public Radio, Inc.
