WordMan: If Biden is not reelected, Rs may well use the Comstock Act of 1873, which is still on the books but unenforced, to ban medication abortion and possibly surgical abortion. That is what they have threatened to do, so why would you doubt them? #vote🌊 www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/o...

If Biden is not reelected, Rs may well use the Comstock Act of 1873, which is still on the books but unenforced, to ban medication abortion and possibly surgical abortion. That is what they have threatened to do, so why would you doubt them? #vote🌊 www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Allies Say They’ll Enforce the Comstock Act. Believe Them.www.nytimes.com Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.

Collectively, we're idiots.

If Biden isn’t re elected, abortion is the least of our worries. It may help get the vote out, but it’s the end of the United States, Taiwan, Ukraine, sovereign Africa, more. I wish we could stop being so narrow minded as to the gravity here.

Whatever issue gets people motivated to vote for Biden in particular and Democrats in general is fine with me. Abortion may be the least of your worries, but it's not the least of many, many voters' worries.

Very worried to think what "sovereign Africa" means here

Too many countries in Africa to list that face Chinese and/or Russian invasion/takeover or destabilization through “meddling”

Unlike our righteous Western destabilization and meddling

As much as you’d like to equate the United States to the evil Russia has infected the world with, there is no comparison.

Oh yeah, we're 10000X more evil

Their seemingly limitless penchant for lying makes it difficult to decide which of their words to believe.

They had been railing against Roe since it was issued in 1973 and finally got it overturned 2 years ago even though nobody believed it would happen. Best not to take the risk that they're lying about using the Comstock Act to ban abortion.

I mean, not really. If they say they're gonna try to do something cartoonishly evil then, that's probably true, and in line with their behavior for the past 50 years or so. They tried to overthrow the federal government and install a dictator. Pretty sure everything's on the table, now.

Tell your elected officials to get rid of this terrible law! bsky.app/profile/resi...

🖋️ “Support Stop Comstock Act” hit 50 signers!

Support Stop Comstock Actresist.bot 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!

Get your bustles ready, ladies. They won’t stop until women a relegated to living in the 1870s.

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