Forbes March 27, 2024
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Supreme Court justices signaled Tuesday they’re unlikely to side with challengers trying to roll back approvals for the abortion drug mifepristone—but comments by conservative justices highlighted another tactic anti-abortion rights advocates could soon take to curb access to the procedure: relying on a long-dormant 19th century law known as the Comstock Act.
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The Supreme Court will rule in the coming months in the medication abortion case, sometime before its term wraps up in late June. The court is unlikely to use the Comstock Act in its ruling, given that it wasn’t at direct issue in the court’s deliberations, but some legal experts and Biden officials cited by The Washington Post speculated Alito and...
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