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Todd Blanche Wants A Nationwide Abortion Ban - Then He Will Go After Birth Control
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A Politico report published today details a conference call in which Todd Blanche, hours from a Senate floor vote on his nomination for Attorney General, told faith leaders he is working to make the 2022 Dobbs decision permanent in every state. Hawk, a trial attorney, reads the reporting and explains the legal mechanism Blanche did not name but, in Hawk's assessment, is almost certainly relying on.
That mechanism is the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal anti-obscenity statute that criminalized mailing contraceptives and abortion-related materials. It has gone unenforced for a century but remains on the books. Hawk walks through how, per the call, Blanche pledged to stop physicians in states where abortion is legal from mailing medication to patients in states that have banned it, and argues the Comstock Act is the only existing statutory tool that would let him attempt it. He lays out the stakes: of roughly 1.1 million abortions in the US last year, about 65 percent were medication abortions, meaning several hundred thousand a year could be affected.
Hawk notes the call was hosted by the White House Faith Office, recorded by the group Intercessors for America, and included a request for journalists to hang up. Senator Richard Blumenthal raised it before the committee vote, calling Blanche a zealot seeking to advance the president's position against reproductive rights. Hawk closes on what a nationwide effort against mailed medication, and potentially contraception, could mean.
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