It’s probably the oldest federal law that no one has heard of: Section 1461 of the federal criminal code prohibits using the mail to send or receive “any “article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” First enacted in 1873, this straightforward statute is a potential obstacle to the shift from surgical to chemical abortion. The Biden Justice Department, therefore, has invented a new “interpretation” of this law that would render it unenforceable.