I haven’t studied the case law under the Comstock Act but, I do note, that the act prohibits mailing of any “obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance … designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use.” But drugs that induce abortion are not …
I haven’t studied the case law under the Comstock Act but, I do note, that the act prohibits mailing of any “obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance … designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use.” But drugs that induce abortion are not themselves obscene, lewd, lascivious, vile etc. by today’s generally accepted moral standards. How can they be, when even the right to an abortion within the first two trimesters was for 50 years in shrines in the constitution? And even the Act doesn’t say abortion itself is an “indecent or immoral use,” as it doesn’t place the word “other” in front of “any indecent or immoral use.” So, originalists, read the text. Had Mr. Comstock wished to outlaw all devices or medication‘s used to produce abortions, regardless of their “morality”, he certainly could have said so.
Dear Mike. You have to understand that many of our fellow citizens actually believe that sluts use abortion as birth control. This goes back even to when abortion meant physically getting your innards scraped out. I know because "slut" was a favorite word of my master-degreed mother in this context. If you scan YouTube comments on the subject, you will see the true underbelly of the thinking creep out in the form of a steady smatter of recommendations for her to "just keep her knees together."
Wow. Your inquiry contains quite a synchronicity. Somewhere in these comments I've gone off on "Other Powers" by (serious historian!) Barbara Goldsmith, and sure enough, a major character in that historical stew of impending Civil War abolitionists, suffragettes, spiritualists, abortionists and, yes, the abominable Comstock, is Henry Ward Beecher, father of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." His career somewhat reflects that of Trump. The most famous preacher of the era, he was also the most prominent lecher, but his profitability to the congregation, combined with the general disregard of females, protected him from disgrace to the end. Only his female victims suffered. As for "Uncle Tom," I'm not sure his fictional memory is not insulted by comparison to Injustice Thomas. I read the book as a kid, but I think the whole point of "Uncle Tom" was coping with powerlessness in a kindhearted way, the which would certainly be the opposite of Clarence Thomas.
I haven’t studied the case law under the Comstock Act but, I do note, that the act prohibits mailing of any “obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance … designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use.” But drugs that induce abortion are not themselves obscene, lewd, lascivious, vile etc. by today’s generally accepted moral standards. How can they be, when even the right to an abortion within the first two trimesters was for 50 years in shrines in the constitution? And even the Act doesn’t say abortion itself is an “indecent or immoral use,” as it doesn’t place the word “other” in front of “any indecent or immoral use.” So, originalists, read the text. Had Mr. Comstock wished to outlaw all devices or medication‘s used to produce abortions, regardless of their “morality”, he certainly could have said so.
Dear Mike. You have to understand that many of our fellow citizens actually believe that sluts use abortion as birth control. This goes back even to when abortion meant physically getting your innards scraped out. I know because "slut" was a favorite word of my master-degreed mother in this context. If you scan YouTube comments on the subject, you will see the true underbelly of the thinking creep out in the form of a steady smatter of recommendations for her to "just keep her knees together."
This is off the subject, but would it be considered "not politically correct" to call Clarence Thomas "Uncle Clarence Thomas." Just wondering.
Wow. Your inquiry contains quite a synchronicity. Somewhere in these comments I've gone off on "Other Powers" by (serious historian!) Barbara Goldsmith, and sure enough, a major character in that historical stew of impending Civil War abolitionists, suffragettes, spiritualists, abortionists and, yes, the abominable Comstock, is Henry Ward Beecher, father of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." His career somewhat reflects that of Trump. The most famous preacher of the era, he was also the most prominent lecher, but his profitability to the congregation, combined with the general disregard of females, protected him from disgrace to the end. Only his female victims suffered. As for "Uncle Tom," I'm not sure his fictional memory is not insulted by comparison to Injustice Thomas. I read the book as a kid, but I think the whole point of "Uncle Tom" was coping with powerlessness in a kindhearted way, the which would certainly be the opposite of Clarence Thomas.