Congress Needs to Repeal This Zombie 1873 Abortion Ban Before It Blows Up in Our Faces

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'If it were to become the law, it would be absolutely catastrophic,' an ACLU lawyer said of the Comstock Act, which the Supreme Court could resuscitate.

, and information about them. The parts about contraception were stripped out in 1971, but Congress never repealed the rest because it apparently wasn’t a priority.. Democrats need to introduce legislation to repeal the entire Comstock Act, or at the very least, every reference to abortion.To be clear, it’s sadly unlikely that a Comstock repeal bill would pass the Republican controlled House or the 50-50 Senate.

But the point would be to make every single one of our 435 members of Congress go on record about whether they support a nationwide abortion ban. Even then it might only help with winning the 2024 election, not from stopping the 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court from sending us all back to the 19th century.to repeal Comstock for decades—kind of like how the same people were pushing the need to codifyinto federal law before it was too late.

 

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