Democrats have settled on their game plan to repeal a 19th-century law that could be used to enforce a national abortion ban, NOTUS has learned.
Lawmakers had strategized for months over how to modify the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal statute that prohibits the shipment of “every article or thing designed, adapted or intended for producing abortion.” At the request of activists, Democrats refrained from publicly pushing a repeal bill forward while the Supreme Court evaluated a case on abortion medication.
But after the court issued a procedural ruling on Thursday that preserved nationwide access to the drugs, Democrats are now ready to act.