‘Sanctuary cities for the unborn’: how a US pastor is pushing for a national abortion ban

In a legal opinion issued last December, the justice department wrote that the Comstock Act does not apply to prescribed abortion medications, which are often sent in the mail and can be used for a variety of purposes, including managing miscarriages and stopping a hemorrhage. Dickson disagrees. 

"Everyone's ignoring these federal statutes," he said. "In New Mexico, these cities and counties are requiring compliance to federal statutes, and we know that these federal statutes trump state laws and state constitutions."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/pastor-push-national-abortion-ban-sanctuary-cities-for-the-unborn