Why Is Everybody Talking About the Comstock Act?

Boom! Lawyered

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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And is the ghost of Anthony Comstock haunting our special guest?

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to a special episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire Newsgroup podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that has split up for the
0:22.1	week, but not permanently. I'm rewired news group, editor at large, Imani Gandhi, and
0:27.4	wait, who are you? You're not Jess. Don't tell them. Well, you got to tell them who you are.
0:35.3	But we just won't tell Jess. Okay. I am not Jess Piclo. It's true. I'm also not a lawyer. I am Garned Henderson, Rewire News Group, senior multi-platform reporter. Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert repro journalism that inspires you to meet a new person on a podcast this week.
0:56.7	And Boom Lawyard is part of that mission.
1:01.3	A big thanks to our subscribers and welcome to our new listeners and viewers.
1:05.8	So Garnett, you just started a couple of months ago here at ReWire News Group.
1:08.8	What is your story? Talk to me about you.
1:10.7	Thank you, Imani. Yes, I just came on staff full time at
1:13.3	Rewire in February. Before that, I was a freelancer for almost a decade, writing on the
1:18.9	intersections of health and culture with a special focus on abortion access. And Rewire was always
1:24.7	one of my favorite places to contribute. So I'm so excited to be on staff here.
1:30.5	So far, I've covered, honestly, a lot of internet-related stories.
1:35.4	I've covered miss and disinformation about birth control that's circulating on social media,
1:41.2	the all-volunteer team that moderates the abortion subreddit, and an abortion
1:46.1	pill service promising to send people abortion pills that they ordered online quickly and
1:51.2	cheaply that kind of collapsed before it ever got off the ground.
1:55.6	And another piece to look out coming soon is a piece I did that I've been wanting to write for a year
2:01.8	about the fact that crisis pregnancy centers appear in CDC directories, online directories of
2:09.8	STI testing service centers. So stay tuned for that one to find out what the CDC said to me
2:15.3	about that. I'll give you a hint. It left a lot to be desired.
2:18.4	Yikes. Well, for those of you who are just getting to know Garnett, you should go to Instagram
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