Democrats Introduce Bill To Repeal Archaic Law That Could Create A National Abortion Ban

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Alanna Vagianos (she/her) is a senior national reporter at HuffPost. She covers gender and politics with a focus on gender-based violence and reproductive justice. Previously, she worked at BUST Magazine and The Feminist Majority Foundation. She graduated from Elon University in North Carolina. Alanna can be reached at alanna.vagianos@huffpost.com.

Democrats in the Senate and House introduced a bill to repeal an archaic law that could be revived to implement a national abortion ban.on Thursday afternoon in hopes of repealing the 1873 law that criminalizes sending “obscene” materials in the mail, including anything “intended for producing abortion.”If enforced as anti-abortion activists want, the Comstock Act would essentially ban abortion across the country, including in states that currently protect abortion access.

“Now that Trump has overturned Roe, a future Republican administration could try to misapply this 150-year-old Comstock law to deny American women their rights, even in states where abortion rights are protected by state law,” she added. Several Senate Democrats are co-sponsors of the bill, including Elizabeth Warren , Catherine Cortez Masto and Sheldon Whitehouse .

 

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