Please support the Stop The Comstock Act, recently introduced by 14 Senators with companion bills introduced in the House by Reps. Balint and Cori Bush. This legislation is a necessary response to promises made by the GOP to use a fringe interpretation of the Comstock Act to effectively ban abortion nationwide if Trump should win.
Women’s rights are being systematically dismantled by far-right extremists. Democrats and any remaining common sense GOP must act now to repeal the 151-year-old law originally enacted to prohibit the mailing of items deemed indecent or obscene. However, the Comstock Law has been cited by Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas in recent abortion-related cases.
The ACLU reports that Trump allies, including the crafters of Project 2025, have laid out a strategy for Trump’s second term; as well as Jonathan Mitchell, who is Trump’s lawyer, the architect of the 2021 Texas abortion ban, and on the shortlist to be Trump’s attorney general. Mitchell explained his view stating“We don’t need a federal [abortion] ban when we have Comstock on the books.”
The threat to women’s healthcare is real and imminent. Please sign on to support and pass the Stop the Comstock Act now!
