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How Is a 19th-Century Obscenity Law Being Used to Ban Reproductive Health Care?
Published 2 years, 5 months ago
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The Comstock Act was designed to criminalize anything considered indecent in the 1870s, from saucy personal letters to pamphlets about contraception. Learn how it's being revived today by anti-abortion activists in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/comstock-act.htm
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