Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint spells out how they’ll leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.

The Supreme Court announced last week that it would take up a case considering restrictions on the most widely-used method of abortion in the United States: the abortion pill. Under a worst-case scenario for American women, that case could have triggered a full reversal of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, cutting off access to the medication across the country. That didn’t happen. The Supreme Court said it would only consider a more narrow set of questions about regulatory changes that have made the abortion pill more accessible in recent years. It could significantly limit access to mifepristone, but won’t end it altogether.

But it may not matter how the high court rules if Republicans win the presidency next November. That’s because GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access. The document explicitly names their intention not just to rescind FDA approval for the abortion pill if they regain control of the White House in 2024, but to revive a 150-year-old law that criminalizes sending or receiving through the mail any “article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine or thing” that could be used to facilitate an abortion. That law, the Comstock Act, is viewed as a de facto federal abortion ban by reproductive rights advocates and anti-abortion activists alike.

  • Flying Squid
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    3811 months ago

    I can’t believe they’re using the fucking Comstock Act. That’s what they used to use to ban porn magazines. Fucking insane.

    • @Laughbone@lemmy.world
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      2511 months ago

      Idk if you’ve read about Anthony Comstock before but was a freaking nutter butter, actually he’d probably feel at home in today’s GOP. Dude used to brag about how many women he got to commit suicide by ruining their lives.

      • Flying Squid
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        911 months ago

        Not a lot, but enough to be aware of his nuttery. And yeah, the modern GOP would definitely bring him into the fold. Trump would make him his VP pick.

    • @pezhore@lemmy.ml
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      2111 months ago

      Don’t think for a second they’re not coming (pun intended) for your porn.

      If the Republicans have their way, everyone would be governed by their conservative “morals”.

      Hell, the speaker of the house even has a weird porn checker app that he shares with his “accountability partner” - his son. Source

      • Flying Squid
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        1111 months ago

        Oh they probably are, but this is like stuff people were getting prosecuted for in the 1930s. That’s the law they’re digging up.