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EPISODE · Dec 22, 2023 · 7 MIN

How Is a 19th-Century Obscenity Law Being Used to Ban Reproductive Health Care?

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The Comstock Act was designed to criminalize anything considered indecent in the 1870s, from saucy personal letters to pamphlets about contraception. Learn how it's being revived today by anti-abortion activists in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/comstock-act.htmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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