The History of Women's Voting Rights

Sally Kohn: It's relevant to think about how the fact that women couldn't vote and until looking pre-reconstruction era American law reflected the views of a much smaller and specific and exclusionary group of voters. She says it is important to remember that what the Comstock Act actually says is that a federal prosecutor can bring charges for mailing. Kohn: Margaret Sanger was really birth control, not abortion. North Carolina approved a 12-week abortion ban over the veto of Democratic Governor Roy Cooper.

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