Postal Service can continue to deliver prescription abortion medication, DOJ says

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The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said that the mailing of mifepristone and misoprostol did not violate an 1873 law known as the Comstock Act.

sought by USPS that the mailing of mifepristone and misoprostol, commonly used to terminate pregnancies, did not violate an 1873 law known as the Comstock Act.

Bottles of Misoprostol, the second medication used in a medical abortion, lay unused in a storage bin at an abortion clinic, in Houston, on July 7, 2022.Mifepristone is a prescription drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to induce an abortion up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy. It must be followed by a second drug, misoprostol. Both drugs also have other uses.

USPS said the Justice Department concurred with its “determination that under the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity, any state laws that may apply to the shipment of those prescription drugs cannot be applied to Postal Service employees who are complying with their duties under federal law.”

 

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What about ordering weed online? Why is that illegal and this is ok? Both can be deemed for medical use?

You cannot infringe in someone’s mail.

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