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Several New Mexico towns are using an 1873 federal law to push back against a new state law to protect abortion access. (Getty Images)

Anti-abortion legal strategy revives Comstock moral purity laws of late 1800s

BY: - May 2, 2023

When officials in a small New Mexico city sued the governor and attorney general over their ordinance placing restrictions on abortion clinics earlier this month, they argued that a late 19th century federal anti-obscenity law superseded state law. In March, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a measure prohibiting public entities from interfering with […]