If you go looking in the Project 2025 Policy Agenda for the Comstock Act, the provisions in federal law now touted as a way to prevent sending mifepristone through the mail, you won’t find a single reference to it. But if you search just a bit, you’ll find this passage:
Stop promoting or approving mail-order abortions in violation of long-standing federal laws that prohibit the mailing and interstate carriage of abortion drugs.[16]The endnote:
16. 18 U.S.C. 1461, https://www.law.cornell.edu/And those two URLs — 1, 2 — have the relevant sections of the Comstock Act.
uscode/text/18/1461 (accessed March 16, 2023),
and 18 U.S.C. 1462, https://www.law.cornell.edu/
uscode/text/18/1462 (accessed March 16, 2023).
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