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The Comstock Act: A History of Women and Public Health

The Comstock Act, it's 150 years old. Not only could you not distribute drugs, which is the issue here, you couldn't distribute information or literature that even spoke about abortion. Ben Franklin had actually written a treatise, you know, medical doctor about abortion and about how women could terminate pregnancies. But Comstock wanted none of this in public life.

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