{"id":3881,"date":"2026-05-16T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:31:00","slug":"scotus-preserved-abortion-by-mail-opponents-already-know-their-next-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/scotus-preserved-abortion-by-mail-opponents-already-know-their-next-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Preserved Abortion by Mail. Opponents Already Know Their Next Moves."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Last week, as they awaited<\/b> <b>word<\/b> from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone <i>and<\/i> misoprostol \u2014 an 1800s-era anti-vice law known as the Comstock Act that bars mail delivery of any medication or instrument used to terminate a pregnancy. Conservatives have seized on the law, which Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/08\/20\/trump-comstock-enforcement-00175068\"><u>disavowed on the 2024 campaign trail<\/u><\/a>, as a silver bullet that could ban both at-home medication abortions and those performed at a doctor\u2019s office, since every procedure requires the use of something delivered by mail.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/05\/15\/abortion-pill-mail-mifepristone-scotus-ruling-00922588\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, as they awaited word from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone and misoprostol \u2014 an 1800s-era anti-vice law known &#8230; <a title=\"SCOTUS Preserved Abortion by Mail. Opponents Already Know Their Next Moves.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/scotus-preserved-abortion-by-mail-opponents-already-know-their-next-moves\/\" aria-label=\"More on SCOTUS Preserved Abortion by Mail. Opponents Already Know Their Next Moves.\">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":[221,172,777,498,211,146,468,732,147,345,227,463,91,346,177,605],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5th-circuit","tag-abortion-bans","tag-advance-provision","tag-aid-access","tag-anti-abortion-organizations","tag-comstock-act","tag-doj","tag-epa","tag-fda","tag-medication-abortion","tag-mifepristone","tag-misoprostol","tag-national-abortion-ban","tag-shield-laws","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}