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Led by Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), the legislation would repeal the abortion provisions of the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal law that bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail.
A future Republican administration will try to use the Comstock Act — an unconstitutionally vague law from a time before women even had the right to vote — to ban abortion nationwide.
Not all Democrats agree that attempting to repeal the Comstock Act’s abortion provisions should be an election-year priority, worried it will distract from the party’s existing efforts to ...
Congressional Democrats are strategizing over legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, the 19th-century anti-vice law that’s being eyed by conservative activists to potentially enact a national ...
Democrats should repeal the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that conservatives want to use to prohibit any shipment of the drugs ...
Democrats worried that a new Trump administration may use a 150-year-old federal law to stop abortion pills from being sent through the mail have announced an attempt to repeal it. Sen. Tina Smith ...
Many Democrats are warning that the right wing plans to revive the Comstock Act, a “zombie” law from 1873 banning the shipment of “every article or thing designed, adapted or intended for ...
Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Thursday to overhaul a long-dormant law that they worry ... the legislation would repeal the abortion provisions of the Comstock Act, ...
Congressional Democrats are strategizing over legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, the 19th-century anti-vice law that’s being eyed by conservative activists to potentially enact a national ...
Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Thursday to overhaul a long-dormant law that they worry could be used by a future Trump administration to severely limit abortion or ...