Thursday, July 18, 2024

Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills - The Washington Post

"The threat that a future Trump-Vance administration will misuse Comstock to ban abortion nationwide is now a five-alarm fire," said Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), who is leading an effort to repeal the Comstock Act's abortion provisions in Congress. 

The White House has also drawn a contrast between Biden's stance on Comstock and his GOP rivals. 

"While Republican elected officials would like to resuscitate a law from 1873 to shut down access to mifepristone — which the FDA first approved as safe and effective more than 20 years ago — the Biden-Harris Administration has made clear that the Comstock Act is not a barrier to the shipment or transport of medication abortion," Jennifer Klein, director of the White House's Gender Policy Council, said in a statement...


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