{"id":13975,"date":"2024-06-19T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:47:39","slug":"the-comstock-act-the-long-dead-law-trump-could-use-to-ban-abortion-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13975","title":{"rendered":"The Comstock Act, the long-dead law Trump could use to ban abortion, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;On the one hand, Trump frequently claims credit for the Supreme Court\u2019s decision eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion \u2014 and well he should, since the three Republicans he appointed to the Supreme Court&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/19-1392_6j37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all joined the Court\u2019s 2022 decision permitting abortion bans<\/a>. As Trump told Fox News last summer, \u201cI did something that no one thought was possible. I got rid of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, Trump at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/10\/politics\/trump-says-he-wouldnt-sign-federal-abortion-ban\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims that he has no interest<\/a>&nbsp;in signing new federal legislation banning abortion. When a reporter asked Trump if he would sign such a ban last month, Trump\u2019s answer was an explicit \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind the scenes, however, many of Trump\u2019s closest allies tout a plan to ban abortion in all 50 states that doesn\u2019t require any new federal legislation whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/abortion\/351678\/the-comstock-act-the-long-dead-law-trump-could-use-to-ban-abortion-explained\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/abortion\/351678\/the-comstock-act-the-long-dead-law-trump-could-use-to-ban-abortion-explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On the one hand, Trump frequently claims credit for the Supreme Court\u2019s decision eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion \u2014 and well he should, since the three Republicans he appointed to the Supreme Court all joined the Court\u2019s 2022 decision permitting abortion bans. As Trump told Fox News last summer, \u201cI did something that no one thought was possible. I got rid of Roe v. Wade.\u201d<br \/>\nAt the same time, Trump at least claims that he has no interest in signing new federal legislation banning abortion. When a reporter asked Trump if he would sign such a ban last month, Trump\u2019s answer was an explicit \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, however, many of Trump\u2019s closest allies tout a plan to ban abortion in all 50 states that doesn\u2019t require any new federal legislation whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/abortion\/351678\/the-comstock-act-the-long-dead-law-trump-could-use-to-ban-abortion-explained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,321,800,221,200,1337,506,170],"class_list":["post-13975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-donald-trump","tag-law","tag-prohibition","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13976,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions\/13976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}