{"id":3009,"date":"2024-10-24T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T22:47:42","slug":"abortion-access-is-settled-law-in-oregon-so-why-are-advocates-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/abortion-access-is-settled-law-in-oregon-so-why-are-advocates-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion access is settled law in Oregon. So why are advocates worried?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one law in particular, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/26\/us\/comstock-act-abortion.html\">Comstock Act,<\/a> that has resurfaced and has many abortion rights advocates worried. The 1873 federal law prohibits mailing or transporting items across state lines that could be used in producing an abortion. Some have interpreted that could mean anything used in an abortion, from the equipment to the painkillers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, it is much more effective and immediate and scary than a national abortion ban, which would be litigated and litigated heavily,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cAll the Trump administration would have to do is say \u2018we\u2019re enforcing a law\u2019 and it\u2019s on the books \u2026 a hostile (Department of Justice) could file lawsuits \u2026 It\u2019s a terrifying thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/10\/oregon-abortion-access-law-advocates-worried\/\">19th News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one law in particular, known as the Comstock Act, that has resurfaced and has many abortion rights advocates worried. The 1873 federal law prohibits mailing or transporting items across state lines that could be used in producing an abortion. Some have interpreted that could mean anything used in an abortion, from the equipment &#8230; <a title=\"Abortion access is settled law in Oregon. So why are advocates worried?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/abortion-access-is-settled-law-in-oregon-so-why-are-advocates-worried\/\" aria-label=\"More on Abortion access is settled law in Oregon. So why are advocates worried?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,172,17,146,106,283],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-abortion-bans","tag-blue-states","tag-comstock-act","tag-oregon","tag-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}