Comstockery!

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Could an 1873 law that hasn't been enforced in nearly a century be a national abortion ban just waiting to happen? Legal friend of the pod Natalie Birnbaum (Repro Solutions) returns to explain what the Comstock Act is, why it's getting so much attention lately and whether it could it ban medication abortion and even birth control. Highlights include: Gilded Age abortionist Madame Restell, a postmaster general gone wild, fake-out abortion referenda and Justice Samuel Alito's revisionist legal history. Recommended resources: Plan C Pills Yellowhammer Fund ReproCare If/When/How Get more Unladylike: Send voice memos and emails to [email protected] Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop Unladylike merch Contact Multitude Productions for ad rates, etc. This episode is sponsored in part by Oak Essentials. Get 15% off your first order with code UNLADYLIKE15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lady Life.
0:05.0	A Lady.
0:08.0	A Lady Like a Lady, like a lady, like a lady, like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:38.0	a lady like. This is unladie like I'm Kristen and this week I learned that Comstockery, the title of this episode you might have noticed, Comstockery is a word. I didn't make it up. It means strict censorship of materials considered obscene.
0:48.0	Comstockery is also capitalized since it is a reference to a mutton chopped man named Anthony Comstock.
0:57.0	But more importantly for our purposes today, he is the namesake of an 1873 anti-obsenity law that is having something of a revival.
1:10.0	That law that was referred to was actually enacted the Comstock Act in 1873.
1:19.0	1873 when they treated pneumonia with bloodletting.
1:24.0	When the Pony Express existed,
1:27.3	and which I note is 10 years before they even did the Yellowstone prequel.
1:32.6	I yield the floor.
1:33.7	The Constock Act, an 1873 law
1:36.6	that criminalizes the shipping of any materials
1:38.8	used in an abortion, including abortion pills.
1:41.8	I can't even really believe that we're talking about this.
1:44.7	This bill, this old law, the Comstock Act has been relegated to the dustbin of history for
1:51.0	over a hundred years.
1:52.2	They want to use another law from the 1800s. It's called
1:56.3	the Comstock Act to ban medication across all 50 states, no matter if it's currently legal or not.
2:06.0	There's been kind of like a bit of tension.
2:08.4	Do we want to talk about the Comstock law?
2:10.4	If we talk about it, are people gonna notice?
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