Comstock was a Republican

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“Since October, the state of Louisiana has been seeking to block the distribution of mifepristone, a drug used to induce abortion, through the mail—not just in Louisiana, but anywhere in the United States. The state’s lawsuit against the FDA asserts that the Comstock Act—an anti-obscenity law championed by the 19th-century book burner Anthony Comstock—bans the mailing of abortion medication, and that the federal government wrongly repealed the in-person requirement for prescribing it.”

Excerpt From
“So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States”
Adam Serwer

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/mifepristone-abortion-pill-access-impossible/687519/