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Today's LA Times: How to save medication abortions in this Congress
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-12-04/mifepristone-misoprostol-medication-abortion-comstock-actBy Erwin Chemerinsky & Miles Mogulescu
Before Democrats lose the White House and the Senate, they should push through legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, which could be used to prevent legal medically induced abortions everywhere in the United States. Given the success of ballot initiatives that protect the right to abortion in even conservative states in last week’s election, the politics could be right to repeal that 1873 law.
The Comstock Act was adopted to prohibit the interstate shipment of obscene materials. The law also outlawed the shipment of anything meant to prevent conception or end pregnancy.
The law, as it now stands, prohibits the shipment through the mail of “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” It also forbids any “express company or other common carrier” from providing for “carriage” of such items “in interstate or foreign commerce.” The act provides for a sentence of up to five years for the first offense and 10 years plus a fine for the second.
The rest at the link.
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I always make a point of reading Chemerinsky. He is a very intelligent and literate writer on matters of the law. 
Enjoy your paper!
