Articles on Comstock Act

Displaying all articles

Pro-abortion rights activists rally in front of the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, the day justices heard oral arguments about the use of mifepristone. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images

Abortion drug access could be limited by Supreme Court − if the court decides anti‑abortion doctors can, in fact, challenge the FDA

Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia and Sonia Suter, George Washington University

Two legal scholars who study abortion-related laws explain what happened at the Supreme Court in a case that could make it harder to get an abortion.
Anti-abortion activists gather outside the Supreme Court building on April 15, 2023. Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post via Getty Images

An obscure 1800s law is shaping up to be the center of the next abortion battle – legal scholars explain what’s behind the Victorian‑era Comstock Act

Sonia Suter, George Washington University and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

The 1873 Comstock Act makes it a crime to mail abortion drugs or medicine – raising legal questions about the law’s potential revival and influence over nationwide abortion laws.

Related Topics

  1. Abortion
  2. Abortion bans
  3. Abortion pills
  4. Abortion rights
  5. Comstock law
  6. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  7. Obscenity
  8. Reproductive rights
  9. Roe v Wade
  10. US Supreme Court

Top contributors