In the late 1800s, those who wanted to eliminate birth control and abortion targeted the U.S. mail. Now the conduit in the ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could reinstate restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone and sharply roll back access nationwide. Being cited in the debate is a 151 ...

March 2: Congress passes the Comstock Law, an anti-obscenity act that specifically lists contraceptives as obscene material and outlaws the dissemination of them via the postal service or ...

The federal Comstock Act was passed in 1873 to prevent the distribution of ... where strong pro-life laws are in effect. Even though New Mexico leans liberal politically, Lea and Roosevelt ...

then-Senator Vance signed a letter from Republican lawmakers to the Justice Department requesting the enforcement of the provisions of the Comstock Act of 1873. They wrote, “We demand that you ...

Those measures explicitly cited the Comstock Act, the long-defunct Victorian-era sexual purity law that prohibits the sending or receiving of anything used to perform or obtain an abortion—and ...

In early March 1873, shortly after his namesake censorship bill was signed into federal law, Anthony Comstock was commissioned a special agent of the U.S. Post Office. He’d aspired to this ...