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Multiple outlets have reported about the regime’s intention to enforce the Comstock Act for the mailing of abortion drugs after the midterms, effectively banning medication abortion in all fifty states. Here’s a link to one report at Common Dreams: GO HERE.
Most of the reporting on this threat has been centered on medication abortion and concerns the regime will ban the mailing of both mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs that induce abortion. (Misoprostol is also a target because it can induce abortion when taken alone, albeit with much more pain and blood loss in most cases.)
While this reporting is accurate, it is the bare minimum that journalists should be doing in the lead-up to the most consequential election of our lives.
I wrote about the Comstock Act as part of a greater reproductive healthcare discussion on 10 April 2024. Look at what I predicted, and compare it to what the regime has already done.
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According to Literary Hub, his surviving diaries chronicle his handwritten humiliations over his inability to stop lusting and jerking off. Like St. Augustine before him, Comstock decided the best way to stop compulsive masturbation wasn’t to deal with himself; it was to blame others for tempting him and go on a crusade to remove any-and-all things that might cause him to wank.
Of course, this personal crusade meant charging into every space that might be producing offending materials, supplies, or information; taking them back to his house for “evaluation” (read masturbation); and reporting the materials to the proper authorities to pursue charges. Congress even appointed Comstock a special advisor at the US Post Office, so one can only imagine he needed a “special room” to go through private mail and deem anything that aroused his uncontrollable urges “obscene.”
I wish history didn’t repeat and continue to produce these vile white men.
Let’s go through a list of every conceivable thing that might have driven Anthony Comstock to rub one out, because he made certain his every temptation wound up in the Comstock Act of 1873.
Obscene materials(as defined by White Christian Nationalists like Comstock) - pornographic books, pictures, drawings, images, likenesses sent through the mail. Today this would include online porn sites, films, songs (including repeating the words), plays, stories, cartoons, being LGBTQIA+ or transgender, anal sex, any displays of the female breast or genitals (even for educational purposes), extramarital sex, references to group sex or throuples, pansexual sex, and more. We’ll revisit this entry in a deeper dive tomorrow.Contraceptives- In 1873, this encompassed all available birth control devices including condoms and diaphragms, plus any mailed literature, instructions for use, recommendations, or other mentions sent via mail. It expanded to oral contraceptives as they developed. Congress repealed this part of the Comstock Act in 1971 in response to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling inGriswold v Connecticutthat granted married women the right to contraception. In 1972, this extended to single women inEisenstadt v Baird. Wednesday, we will cover why a Congressional repeal of this part of the 1873 Comstock Act means nothing today.Abortion-related items(from most of today’s journalistic coverage, you’d think this is all Comstock covered; yet here it is on my list at number 3) - This applied to any and all drugs, medicines, medical supplies, implements and anything else that could be adapted to administer abortion. Thursday, we’ll cover the sheer volume of medical items and speech to which this could apply, because the mifeprestone/misoprostol combination is the tippy-top of a very long list.Sexual implements- Devices intended for indecent and/or immoral use (according to White Christian Nationalists like Anthony Comstock, who surely had a secret room full of these things to see which ones caused him to lust and spank his monkey.) Today this could encompass all sex toys, sex shops, role playing and dress up, BDSM, and more. We’ll cover what this could mean tomorrow with obscene items.Information and advertising related to any of the above- Today, this wouldn’t merely apply to mailed items. It would also mean aggressive online policing and censorship, as well as surveillance of email, text messages, group chats, and other electronic communication. We’ll cover how this could annul one’s Constitutional right to privacy as well as the First Amendment on Friday.
People who only focus on abortion medication miss everything else they might use the Comstock Act to outlaw. So much more is at stake in the midterms. It isn’t just abortion medication, people.
If Democrats manage to wrest control of Congress, repealing the entire Comstock Act must be a Day One action item. It was always a violation of both our right to privacy and the First Amendment. We must force our elected politicians to slay this zombie law.
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