Judd Legum

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@Walgreens @KrisKobach1787 5. It is named after Anthony Comstock who was the "head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice." Comstock famously arrested Ezra Heywood for mailing a copy of "Cupid’s Yokes, in which [Heywood] asserted that women should have the right to control their own bodies" — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 6, 2023

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@Walgreens @KrisKobach1787 4. Most of the letter is a discussion of the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that has been ignored or limited by federal courts for decades. The Comstock Act "made it illegal to send 'obscene, lewd or lascivious,' 'immoral,' or 'indecent' publications through the mail." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 6, 2023

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@Walgreens @KrisKobach1787 6. The Comstock Act also purports to make it illegal to "mail" a drug that "is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 6, 2023