How might a Trump administration effectively ban abortion without actually signing a national abortion ban into law? Abortion advocates are sounding the alarm over a 1873 law known as the Comstock Act. Lindsay Langholz joins Christopher Wright Durocher to take a critical look at this zombie law - why it was passed, how it has historically been used, and how an incoming Trump administration might take advantage of this dusty section of the United States Code.
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Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program
Guest: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACS
Link: Trump Allies Plan New Sweeping Abortion Restrictions, by Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias
Link: Ten Actions Dems Can Take to Protect Abortion Before Trump Takes Office, by Jessica Valenti
Link: Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It, by Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler
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Email the Show: Podcast@ACSLaw.org
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Broken Law: About the law, who it serves, and who it doesn’t.
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