When officials in a small New Mexico city sued the governor and attorney general over their ordinance placing restrictions on abortion clinics earlier this month, they argued that a late 19th century federal anti-obscenity law superseded state law.
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When officials in a small New Mexico city sued the governor and attorney general over their ordinance placing restrictions on abortion clinics earlier this month, they argued that a late 19th century …
The Comstock Act of 1873 bans the mailing of anything “obscene, lewd, lascivious” or considered morally impure, including abortifacients or abortion-related materials.
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