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Hace 5 días · The Comstock Act’s namesake is Anthony Comstock, a 19th-century anti-vice crusader who wielded it and similar state laws against artists, authors, and reproductive health providers as...
15 de may. de 2024 · May 15, 2024. 4 min read. Disregard for Women’s Lives Explains the Comstock Act’s Origins. It Also Explains Its Revival Today. Activists who seek to revive this antiquated law share with...
Hace 3 días · The Comstock Act is an 1873 anti-obscenity law that, among other things, makes it a crime to mail anything that’s “indecent, filthy, or vile” or “intended for producing abortion.” Its namesake, Anthony Comstock, was an infamous Victorian-era anti-vice crusader who, as the Supreme Court has explained, “believed that anything remotely touching upon sex was obscene.”
22 de may. de 2024 · The law named for Anthony Comstock drove abortion underground and banned contraception. Now conservatives are hoping to dust it off to make abortion pills and even the Pill illegal again. May 22, 2024 Eleanor Cooney Mother Jones
26 de may. de 2024 · Neither ruling mentions Comstock, not even by its numerical designation. One answer is that no one involved in those cases imagined that the Comstock Act applies or should apply in the way ultraconservatives like Alito and Clarence Thomas are now suggesting—as a de facto national ban on abortion.
14 de may. de 2024 · Discover how Anthony Comstock’s 151-year-old chastity laws still affect women’s reproductive rights and choices today. Learn more here. Anthony Comstock. As recently as 1960, America’s legal system was inhospitable to the very concept of birth control.
12 de may. de 2024 · earn about the controversial figure of Anthony Comstock and his strict chastity laws that shaped American society and still impact us today. From Victorian Values to Modern Controversy: The Legacy of Anthony Comstoc - The Narrative Matters
