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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Love cast at savage. |
0:03.7 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary or if you're looking for sexual harmony. |
0:13.0 | Well, there's nothing you can't ask. |
0:19.0 | On the Savage Lovecast. |
0:22.0 | The Comstock Act Act, it's back baby, back in the news, back in the conversation, not |
0:28.2 | back in force, at least not yet. But that is what Clarence Thomas, who should be rotting in a prison cell somewhere for taking bribes, and Samuel Alito, who should be fucking all the way the fuck off somewhere. |
0:40.0 | It is what both signaled or both both stated, they wanted, during oral arguments to Supreme Court last week |
0:46.2 | about basically banning the sale of MIFA Pristone, one of the two medications that women take to safely |
0:51.2 | terminate unwanted pregnancies in the privacy of their own homes, |
0:55.0 | which for many women in red states is their only option, and it is an option that millions of women |
0:59.5 | have availed themselves of since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade a couple of years ago, |
1:06.4 | which resulted in abortion services being banned or severely restricted in more than 24 states. |
1:12.2 | And yet, the abortion rate in the United States because of medication |
1:16.3 | abortion and because you can send these pills through the mail has not gone down. |
1:21.8 | This fact is driving abortion opponents crazy, so crazy that |
1:25.9 | they're talking about bringing back the 151 year old Comstock Act, which while |
1:31.0 | still on the books hasn't been enforced for more than 100 years. |
1:35.0 | The people who want to shrink the size of government, |
1:38.0 | who want to make the government so small, they can cram it all the way up your vagina, |
1:41.0 | want to bring back a law that empowered the federal government |
1:45.5 | to suppress, quote, trade in and circulation of obscene literature and articles of immoral use. |
1:52.6 | That included suppressing information about contraceptives, |
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