Anti-abortion groups are deploying a 19th century law named for an 'anti-vice crusader' in the ongoing court battles over access to a drug widely used in medication abortion.
Comstock Act against medication abortion — with a high-profile case involving it potentially headed to the Supreme Court.
The law isn't "a slam dunk," in court, Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, told Axios, but "there's an argument you could make that a court that's conservative enough may buy," she said. She called it "sort of ... the best way or most realistic way for the anti-abortion movement to get what it wants."
If the Supreme Court leans towards the anti-abortion movement's embrace of the Comstock Act, "it's going to nationalize the abortion issue in politics in a way we really haven't seen
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