Senator Tina Smith uses a humorous video to highlight the dangers of the Comstock Act, a 19th-century law that could be used to restrict abortion access nationwide.
Produced by the Abortion Access Front, a reproductive rights nonprofit, the video is entitled the “Debate of the Century” and features Smith critiquing the Comstock Act —a set of laws architected by Comstock in the 1800s, prohibiting the mailing of “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” materials, like pornography, or any article or thing “intended for the prevention of conception or procuring of abortion.
” This so-called “zombie law,” as Smith explained to her stage partner, is still on the books and could be used by president-elect Donald Trump’s next administration to restrict access to abortion nationwide—without a single bill falling on congressional desks. “You talking women quench your insatiable thirst for horndoggery by worshiping at the altar of abortion and contraception; you use the US mail as your personal delivery service of lewd goods and all things abortion,” the fake-Comstock said in the video, to the side-eye glance of his opponent. “All things which one Senator Tina Smith can use to pollute the virtues of the people of our righteous, Christian nation.” “I personally want to welcome Mr. Comstock to the 21st century,” Smith rebutted, adding, “where women can currently vote, own property, hold public office, and even wear pants.” The appearance was a chance for Smith to spread awareness about the 1800s law, and about the bill she had introduced a few months earlier, the Stop Comstock Act, which aims to repeal the part of the law that could be used to prohibit the mailing of abortion-related items. Smith, who has been a senator since 2018, was one of the first elected officials to raise alarms about Comstock, and has continued to prioritize its threat in the weeks since Trump won the presidential electio
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