MN Dems Fret Abortion by Mail May Be Blocked by Comstock Act – IOTW Report

MN Dems Fret Abortion by Mail May Be Blocked by Comstock Act

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tina Smith and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Friday they support repealing a formerly obscure 150-year-old federal law so it can’t be used by a future president to restrict access to medication abortions.

Smith noted that U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas raised the Comstock Act from history’s dustbin last week during oral arguments in a Texas case that could limit access to mifepristone, a drug used for medication abortions. The act, dating to 1873, prohibits the mailing of any “lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article manner or thing” and that includes any material that can be used for an abortion, Smith said at a news conference in Ellison’s State Capitol office. More

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