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Pro-life organization releases detailed report on importance of mail order abortion rules
Catholic Vote ^ | August 27, 2024 | Grace Porto

Posted on 08/27/2024 12:50:18 PM PDT by Morgana

CV NEWS FEED // Americans United for Life (AUL), a leading pro-life advocacy group, has published a report on the importance of federal rules regulating mail-order abortions. The Biden Administration wants to eliminate those rules.

AUL states that the Aug. 26 report “provides an overview and statutory history of federal mail-order abortion rules,” addressing misconceptions about the rules.

Litigation Counsel Carolyn McDonnell, the report’s author, explains that 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–1462, part of the federal Comstock Act, restricts the US Postal Service from mailing abortifacients. Express companies, common carriers, or interactive computer services are also restricted from mailing abortifacients.

Moreover, McDonnell’s report “demonstrates that nonuse has not repealed these laws, that repealing these laws would have negative public policy implications, and that the laws do not prohibit the mailing of surgical instruments and drugs for purposes other than abortion,” AUL states.

Steven Aden, the AUL’s Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, stated,

Over 60% of abortions in America today are done by chemical abortion pills. Federal law prohibits mail-order chemical abortions. With her typical precision and thoroughness, AUL’s Carolyn McDonnell has demonstrated that these life-saving laws are soundly based in patient health and safety and remain in effect and fully enforceable.

AUL’s mission is to “advance the human right to life in culture, law, and policy” by equipping “advocates and lawmakers with the facts and strategies that change hearts and minds and protect human life.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abortifacients; abortion; abortionpill; chemicalabortion; comstockact; comstocklaws; mailorder; medicalabortion; mifepristone; misoprostol; prolife; usmail
Short answer it's still illegal under the Comstock Law to ship abortion pills by Mail.
1 posted on 08/27/2024 12:50:18 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Reports on FR indicate chemical abortions are horrendously painful for the mother.

God only knows the pain the baby experiences.


2 posted on 08/27/2024 1:29:12 PM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Liz

Please, they are the same pills used to treat a miscarriage. My second wife had two in the first term each. Both times after the 9 or 10 week ultrasound no heart beat so they gave her the pills to push the pregnancy products the correct scientific term out of her body before they went septic. While unpleasant she was not in horrendous pain she passed the sac and both times we gathered the DNA for testing. It was way better than the D&C the first wife had to endure when she miscarried at 18 weeks on her first pregnancy. Yea there are limited cases of complications but these same pills are uses every day for miscarriages to avoid the much more invasive D&C procedure. The only difference before 15 weeks is elective or not from a medical perspective.


3 posted on 08/27/2024 2:48:12 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: Liz

And all because the parents are too selfish and hedonistic to care.


4 posted on 08/27/2024 2:52:43 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Liz

Watch Unplanned.
Pill one kills the baby. Pill 2 causes contractions and dialates to deliver the dead baby.


5 posted on 08/28/2024 3:06:41 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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