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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Democrats should repeal the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that conservatives want to use to prohibit any shipment of the drugs used for medically induced abortions. News. Home Page ; ...

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. IE 11 is not supported.

Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act bans in part the usage of the U.S. Postal Service to send any materials that can facilitate or cause abortions.

You’ll Never Guess Who Doesn’t Want to Repeal a Zombie Abortion Ban Democrats are getting pressure from abortion rights groups to keep the Comstock Act in place.

Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a bill to repeal an archaic law that could be revived to implement a national abortion ban. If enforced as anti-abortion activists want, the Comstock ...

Democrats seek to repeal Comstock abortion rule, fearing Trump crackdown. The Comstock Act, an 1873 law that bans abortion-related materials from being sent through the mail, could be used by the ...