| Friend, This Halloween, here’s what’s really scary: If Donald Trump wins the White House, he doesn’t need an act of Congress to ban abortion nationwide. Instead, Trump and his extremist Project 2025 allies will enforce an 1873 zombie law passed before women could even vote.(1) The far-right wing, including several Trump-appointed judges, believes the Comstock Act can be used to stop abortion across the country.(2,3) That’s why we’re pushing Congress to repeal this antiquated law once and for all. Will you sign our petition demanding Congress repeal the anti-woman, anti-abortion Comstock Act? In 1873, Congress passed the paternilistic Comstock Act to stop the U.S. Postal Service from mailing any material deemed “obscene,” from romance novels to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to anything having to do with abortion. The 150-year-old law was never popular and seldom enforced. The Post Office, Congress, and the courts all generally agreed it no longer applied to contraception or abortion.(4) But it’s still on the books, and right-wing extremists now want to use the Comstock Act to shut down abortion care nationwide. Republican AG’s are evoking the zombie law in litigation against the abortion pill.(5) Project 2025 is plotting executive action. And Trump-appointed judges stand ready to throw out precedent to go along with the plan.(6,7) –Irene, Annie, Angela, Isidra, Mario, Marvin, Alyssa, Jen, Cecilia, and Lindsay (the Courage team)
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