Jack, the Comstock Act could deny access to reproductive health care and provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide—even in states where the procedure is legal. Congress can stop this now!
Sign the petition: Congress must repeal the Comstock Act.
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We’ve already had a preview of the Comstock Act in the GOP playbook. When Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk revoked the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, he cited the 19th-century Comstock Act.
The Supreme Court has decided to keep access to mifepristone until an appeals case is reviewed by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. But no matter who wins the appeals case, there will likely be an appeal back to the Supreme Court.
We obviously cannot wait for the Supreme Court to consider the archaic Comstock Act. We must take steps now, with the first step being to repeal the extremely outdated legislation.
Add your name to tell Congress to immediately begin working to repeal the Comstock Act.
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Thanks for all you do,
Erin Tulley, Daily Kos
P.S. Below is an email we sent out earlier with more information about the Comstock Act:
Jack, the GOP has an arsenal of legal cases in the works designed to achieve their ultimate goal of banning abortion nationwide. Many of these cases, like the mifepristone case, will rely on the Comstock Act, a 150-year-old law designed to control our bodies that has dangerously been left on the books.
Sign the petition: Congress MUST repeal the Comstock Act.
SIGN THE PETITION
The Comstock Act, passed in 1873, banned the mailing of contraceptives, lewd materials and drugs that induce abortions. Dormant after Roe v. Wade established a federal right to abortion, it is now being revived by anti-abortion groups and conservative states seeking to block the mailing of mifepristone, the pill used in more than half of U.S. abortions.
The Comstock Act could provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide–even in states where the procedure is legal.
We must rise to meet this moment for the sake of our reproductive freedoms. We cannot wait for the Supreme Court to consider this archaic legislation. The Comstock Act must be immediately repealed by Congress.
Add your name to tell Congress to immediately begin working to repeal the Comstock Act.
SIGN THE PETITION
Thanks for all you do,
Erin Tulley, Daily Kos
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