Dear FDA: Why are you aiding the breaking of federal laws about abortion? www.liveaction.org/news/dear-fd...
#ComstockAct
#Project2025 reproductive health priorities accomplished by the Trump administration-Kennedy:
#Project2025 guides the DHS to collect data on people who have abortions
#Project2025 authors want the FDA to reverse its 2000 approval of mifepristone via the use of the #ComstockAct
Chapters 13, 14, 21
#brithcontrol will be affected if the #comstockact is in affect.
#abortion #abortionishealthcare #prochoice #roevwade
DYK #MadameRestell provided #BirthControl & #abortion for 40 yrs & ran ads in NYC newspapers until 1878? She killed herself when #AnthonyComstock campaigned against her & her woman's health services. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #AbortionBan #ComstockAct #TrumpChristians #WmnHist
📚Adam Morgan’s excellent "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls" on trailblazing publisher Margaret C. Anderson revisits the 1921 Ulysses obscenity trial—sadly, newly relevant.
#BookBans #ComstockAct #BookSky
Thx for the galley @atriabooks.bsky.social
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The Legal Justice League Taking on MAGA's Abortion Witch Hunts💥 👊Reproductive Futures, led by superhero @juliefkay.bsky.social, is defending doctors & nurses hunted for helping women get abortion pills.
#abortionrights #reproductivefreedom #womensrights #maga #comstockact #shieldlaws #abortionpills
DYK the 1895 SCOTUS found it was legal to use decoy tactics to entrap people into violating the #ComstockAct? The case was “U.S. v. Grimm”. William Grimm had responded to a letter of entrapment. He asked for “fancy” photos.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #pornography
#Ovid’s “Art of Love”, Queen Margaret of Navarre’s “The Heptameron”, #Rabelais’s “Gargantua & Pantagruel”, & #Rousseau’s “Confessions”.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorshiip #ComstockAct #DirtyBooks
Judge Morgan J. O’Brien (d.1937) found that
“… [The books] rank with the higher literature, and would not be bought nor appreciated by the class of people from whom unclean publications ought to be withheld.” The #GOP invokes the #ComstockAct today! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship
#TrumpKKKristians
DYK In 1887, #AnthonyComstock triggered a public relations disaster for himself by arresting the owner of the Knoedler Gallery in NYC? He charged him with selling photos of Parisian Salon paintings. The court found that 35 out of 37 of them were not obscene. #ComstockAct
DYK in 1876, Edward Bliss Foote had to publish a revision of his book about, “Plain Home Talk—Embracing Medical Common Sense” because of the #ComstockAct, which #TrumpKKKristians want to bring back!
DYK the punishments #AnthonyComstock meted out under the #ComstockAct were often severe? #FreeLove publisher Ezra Heywood agreed the proliferation of #porn was “alarming”, nevertheless #Comstock had him arrested in 1876 for writing “Cupid’s Yokes”.
DYK, very much like #Trump, #AnthonyComstock did not apply his 1873 #ComstockAct to people he knew? Samuel #Colgate, a powerful member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice marketed #Vaseline w/a 12-pg mailer promoting it for #BirthControl:
DYK #AnthonyComstock’s Postal #ComstockAct (1873) drove the delivery of #porn to private carriers? It wasn’t until 1897 that all interstate trade in #pornography became illegal & private express companies had to give up the business. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TrumpKKKristians
Efforts to undermine and make #abortion illegal continuing. New suit by individual challenges abortion by #telehealth w/ state law and #ComstockAct claims. Will not wind its way through #courts. 19thnews.org/2025/07/tele...
The Society competed w/police in NYC. It found police efforts inadequate & began to raid dens of ill repute. Comstock charged, “You must hunt these men as you hunt rats, without mercy.” #TrumpKKKristians & the #GOP are trying to revive #ComstockAct. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #AnthonyComstock established the NY Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873 w/backing from the #YMCA? Its members assisted police in the suppression of materials that NY & the #ComstockAct forbade, including #BirthControl info.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #censorship
In 1872, the #YMCA gave #AnthonyComstock $30,000 to buy & destroy all the printing equipment & plates owned by porn publisher William Haines. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #ComstockAct
Thom Hartmann From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control Law enforcement officers in Red states are now interrogating women who seek care for pregnancy complications, Republican Attorneys General are demanding records of miscarriages and abortions even from Blue states, and doctors are afraid to treat women in crisis, leading to a doubling in the use of blood transfusions (women almost bleeding to death) in Texas since they passed their draconian abortion ban. It’s deliberate, and it’s escalating. And now Republicans in Congress and the states are openly talking about bringing back enforcement of the Comstock Act of 1873, the Victorian-era law banning not just abortion but contraception and obscene materials, as I wrote about in The Cold Dead Hand of Anthony Comstock. Meanwhile, the fetal personhood movement backed by Trump and Vance is becoming mainstream. As vice president, J.D. Vance spoke at the 2025 March for Life rally, declaring “I want more babies in the United States of America” and aligned himself with the GOP’s agenda of fetal personhood, a policy that could make IVF, contraception, and even most miscarriage treatment illegal. This is a deliberate, systemic reinforcement of toxic masculinity, an ideology of power, control, and domination.
#tradwife #Masculinity #Heirarchy #Women #ToxicMasculinity #alt #culture #JDVance #Middleclass#Misscarriage #Republicans #Texas #ComstockAct #FetalPersonhood##dominance
Thom Hartmann
From: The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
#ComstockAct #BodilyAutonomy
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#TAKEACTION now for HUMAN RIGHTS
FEMALE HUMANS ARE HUMAN.
#ABORTION #COMSTOCKACT
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#WomensHealthcareRights #ReproductiveRights #ComstockAct #RoeVsWade #Physicians #CriminalPenalties
#ResistFascism
#NoKingsDay #June14
Status of #AbortionBans in the United States as of June 2, 2025
@kff.org
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"It's really important that we don't pass laws just in case we need them and not enforce them because nothing is stopping someone else from coming along and deciding to enforce them." #ComstockAct #Project2025 c4osl.org/beyond-the-f...
#OTD #May6, 1917 private showing #MargaretSanger’s film #Birth Control. Sanger had scheduled it to open publicly the next night, but #NYC officials banned it as obscene and it was never shown publicly. #ComstockAct woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/05/06/m...
5 a day are dying in femicide -Any reports?
5 years ago both parties derailed the HUMAN RIGHT of equal protection of law for 170 million women
-Any reports?
Relegated to 2nd class status the question is how does the country treat its 2nd class citizens who have history of coverture?
#ComstockAct
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re... #ComstockAct #RepealComstock #HandsOff #Petition #AbortionRights
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion groups cite the 1873 Comstock Act to restrict access to abortion medication. With MAGA using it, then they should enforce the entire act which also criminalizes mailing any material w/ nudity & can be prosecuted as well.
#ComstockAct
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
@wyden.senate.gov
I'm your constituent in Eugene, and I say:
Repeal the Comstack Act!
#ComstockAct #reproductiverights
act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/stop-co... #comstockact #abortion #stopcomstockact #resistance #gilead