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A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight | Flipboard

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“Justice Clarence Thomas argues the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, prohibits the mailing of abortion medication.”
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Multiple sources indicate that Justice Thomas (along with Justice Alito) has lent credibility to or argued in favor of the Comstock Act's application to prohibit the mailing of abortion medication.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Comstock Act is an 1873 law that prohibits mailing of any “article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” And it could be enforced to prohibit mail-order abortion sales n…
https://www.lifenews.com/2024/03/27/supreme-court-justice-cl…
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web search NEUTRAL — Kacsmaryk cited the Comstock Act in his ruling, arguing that the law prohibits the mailing of mifepristone. The case currently before the court has been narrowed to focus on the changes the FDA rolled…
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/supreme-court-abortion-pill…
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web search NEUTRAL — Justices Alito and Thomas just lent credibility to the Christian right’s attempt to revive the Comstock Act. A demonstrator in historical costume holds a sign reading "let the men decide".
https://newrepublic.com/article/180153/alito-thomas-comstock…
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“the Comstock Act, passed in 1873”
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The date of the Comstock Act (1873) is explicitly confirmed by Wikipedia and other authoritative reference sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in federal law that generally criminalize the involvement of the United States Postal Service, its officers, or a common carrier in conveying…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Act_of_1873
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web search NEUTRAL — The Comstock Act refers to a series of federal laws initially passed in 1873 and named after anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock. Long considered a “zombie law”—meaning it was not enforced but remaine…
https://reproductiverights.org/resources/what-is-the-comstoc…
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web search NEUTRAL — On March 3, 1873, President Ulysses Grant signed the Comstock Act into law and appointed Comstock Special Agent to the Post Office. The next day, Comstock turned 29. Obscene literature and articles of…
https://www.fire.org/research-learn/why-1873-comstock-act-st…
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“decades of evidence showing it [mifepristone] to be safe and effective”
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Multiple medical and news sources, including Johns Hopkins and U.S. News, confirm that mifepristone is backed by decades of peer-reviewed research and safety data.
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web search NEUTRAL — Decades of data, including data collected during the coronavirus pandemic, support mifepristone’s safety. The drug’s fate in the United States may now be determined by judicial review.The study “confi…
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/court-mifepristone-abort…
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web search NEUTRAL — Is Mifepristone Safe? Currently authorized for use in 96 countries, including the U.S., mifepristone was developed in France in the 1980s and approved by the FDA in 2000. Nearly four decades of peer-r…
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/what-is-mifepristone-aka-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how safe this abortion pill is. Key Takeaways. Mifepristone, often called the "abortion pill," is used to block progesterone, a hormone essential for pregnancy, and is used for both medical abor…
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/patient-advice/article…
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