A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/16/supreme-court-mifepristone-abortion-pill-mail/

> Justice Clarence Thomas argues the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, prohibits the mailing of abortion medication.
#mifepristone #abortionrights #ComstockAct

Your semi-regular reminder that repealing the #ComstockAct needs to be high on the to-do list for a post-Trump U.S.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-mifepristone-stay-thomas-alito

#AbortionRights

Supreme Court Keeps Mifepristone Available For Now While Alito and Thomas Seethe in Dissent

The Supreme Court will keep mifepristone available as usual, it ruled in...

TPM - Talking Points Memo
Comstock Act of 1873 - Wikipedia

MAGA Seeks To End Abortion Rights By Ending Medication Abortions

Can the right wing get the Supreme Court to green light a de facto national abortion ban?

The Big Picture

#tradwife #Masculinity #Heirarchy #Women #ToxicMasculinity #alt #culture #JDVance #Middleclass#Misscarriage #Republicans #ComstockAct#FetalPersonhood#Contreception #dominance

Thom Hartmann
From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
Underneath the memes, podcasts, and tradwife fantasies lies a dangerous agenda: train young men to reject equality, fear women’s power, and embrace authoritarianism disguised as masculinity

Something for progressive federalists: state postal services, with separate letter boxes.

Why?
1. Absentee mail voting in state and local elections without USPS issues;
2. Possible Postal banking;
3. Limited Protection from #ComstockAct and federal censorship;
4. Possible state census.

#uspol #ProgFedUS #ProgressiveFederalism

How to Get and Abet an Abortion:
Everything You Need to Know to Help Yourself or a Friend, No Matter Where You Live in America - advice from writers at the @thestranger

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/02/03/79904283/how-to-get-and-abet-an-abortion

#Abortion #Healthcare #AbortionRights #Abortionpill #Mifepristone #misoprostol #Pregnancy #Medicaid #ComstockAct

How to Get and Abet an Abortion

If we wind up in Stephen Miller’s personal prison for writing this, please send treats.

The Stranger

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/the-anti-abortion-movement-is-lobbying-the-trump-administration-for-an-abortion-pill-crackdown/

letter to #DoJ takes aim at the distribution of #mifepristone by mail. The #FDA has allowed providers to mail mifepristone to patients since 2021…But the letter, addressed to #actingAG James McHenry, asks him to take “immediate action” to implement the #ComstockAct, the 19th-century anti-obscenity law that made it a crime to mail “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing #abortion.”

Anti-Abortion Leaders Lobby Trump Officials For An Abortion Pill Crackdown

If they succeed, the moves could amount to a national abortion ban.

Mother Jones
Opinion: Democrats could use a lame duck to save medication abortions

Democrats should repeal the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that conservatives want to use to prohibit any shipment of the drugs used for medically induced abortions.

Los Angeles Times