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Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint spells out how they’ll leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.

The Supreme Court announced last week that it would take up a case considering restrictions on the most widely-used method of abortion in the United States: the abortion pill. Under a worst-case scenario for American women, that case could have triggered a full reversal of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, cutting off access to the medication across the country. That didn’t happen. The Supreme Court said it would only consider a more narrow set of questions about regulatory changes that have made the abortion pill more accessible in recent years. It could significantly limit access to mifepristone, but won’t end it altogether.

But it may not matter how the high court rules if Republicans win the presidency next November. That’s because GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe they're using the fucking Comstock Act. That's what they used to use to ban porn magazines. Fucking insane.

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't think for a second they're not coming (pun intended) for your porn.

If the Republicans have their way, everyone would be governed by their conservative "morals".

Hell, the speaker of the house even has a weird porn checker app that he shares with his "accountability partner" - his son. Source

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh they probably are, but this is like stuff people were getting prosecuted for in the 1930s. That's the law they're digging up.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

They remind me of a certain 30's dictator