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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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The History of Comstock

In both of these cases, the Alliance Defending Freedom slash the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine isn't so much arguing on the merits that Comstock creates a nationwide ban on all abortions. They're arguing instead and trying to bootstrap Comstock onto their points about FDA authority. The history is unsurprisingly coming from what we've seen from conservative judges lately is radically oversimplified.

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