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.If Trump is elected, J.D. Vance is only a heartbeat away from the presidency. He’s the guarantor of support for a national abortion ban, and possibly more—Vance supports, or at least he still did publicly last year, the enforcement of the Comstock Act. As we discussed during the debate over the abortion drug mifepristone, Republicans have suggested enforcing the Comstock Act in an effort to prohibit the drug’s shipment in the mail, along with prohibiting any shipment of materials about abortion or equipment that could be used to perform one, even if it has dual purposes.
Back in April 2023, I wrote about the Act:
“In 1996 then-Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) tried to convince the House to take the Comstock Act off the books. They didn’t. But her floor speechhas resonance today. She explained that the Act was named for a man named Anthony Comstock, who ‘was one of these people who decided only he knew what was virtuous and right, and somehow he managed to convince all sorts of people that this was correct.’ That sounds familiar.
She continued, ‘Anthony Comstock was a religious fanatic who spent his life in a personal crusade for moral purity—as defined, of course, by himself. This crusade resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a multitude of Americans whose only crime was to exercise their constitutional right of free speech in ways that offended Anthony Comstock. Women seemed to particularly offend Anthony Comstock, most particularly women who believed in the right to plan their families through the use of contraceptives, or in the right of women to engage in discussions and debate about matters involving sexuality, including contraception and abortion.’”
Whether it’s Anthony Comstock, Donald Trump, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, or J.D. Vance, women don’t need men to tell them what they can do. They just don’t.
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Often, we use the language of games when we describe politics: match-ups and races, finish lines, Hail Mary passes, and front runners.joycevance.substack.com