Imagine what most Americans would make of it if an already unpopular Supreme Court interpreted a law from 1873 as a sweeping, punitive zombie abortion ban.
Abortion-pill access may survive the latest legal challenge to mifepristone, but at least two right-wing justices are eyeing a backup plan: the Victorian-era Comstock laws.
Tulane Law Professor Stephen Griffin is hosting a national scholarly conference on the significance of Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment in the U.S. Constitution on Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16.