Democrats move to repeal 1873 law they say could pave way for national abortion ban

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1. If the GOP win in 2025, they will have a national ban on abortion, ban contraception, ban gay marriage, ban no fault divorce, and legalize child marriage on day 1.

2. A 151 year old statute imposed by a puritan wacko has no place in the 21st century.

   Repeal it.

3. Look what the republicans pulled in Arizona, they will be using Hammurabi’s code to justify abortion bans at this rate.

4. Why do we still have these archaic laws on the books? Everything should sunset in like, 20 years and be revisited.

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6. The Comstock Act also prohibits send anything of a “lewd or vulgar nature” through the mail. There is a really good chance that the “originalist” Republicans on the supreme court could use this to stop Internet porn. Republicans are already talking about it. I think that the Democratic party needs to make an issue out of this.

7. Won’t matter. If the Republicans on the court want to ban all abortion they won’t let anything stop them.

8. Woulda been nice if democrats thought about this when they last controlled both the white house and the congress like people were warning them to.

9. That law is called “The Comstock Act” named after Anthony Comstock who argued that children had easy access to smut (sound familiar) and served as a model for the villain in BioShock. You know the one where the first thing a the player witnesses waking up in his dystopia is the stoning to death of an interracial couple.