Conservative groups have launched a PR campaign to frame the Comstock Act of 1873 as an anti-drug trafficking law. One expert ...

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

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 ...

The Washington Post is being criticized for a recent profile on a conservative lawyer that neglected to mention he supports a ...

Louisiana recently indicted a New York doctor for mailing abortion pills to a mother and her teen daughter. Now, Louisiana ...

Groups opposed to abortion have also supported Trump banning abortion pills using the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that would criminalize sending abortion pills by mail. Many Republican lawmakers ...

Donald Trump’s second administration has advanced an avalanche of policy action and political pronouncements that have jolted ...

Jeff Landry signed a bill last year that classified abortion medications as controlled substances. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr) ...

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 ...