More than four years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the shrieking harpies of MS NOW still cry about the Supreme Court acknowledging the Constitution didn’t guarantee the right to kill babies. And since President Donald Trump is still adding to the most pro-life administration in recent history, they once again took to the cameras on Wednesday’s episode of The 11th Hour to suggest that everything women “have can be taken away.”
Guest host Catherine Rampell and one of her panelists, political commentator Molly Jong-Fast, who publicly called pro-life laws “dystopian,” blabbed about the exchange between Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche. Cruz asked if Blanche would enforce the Comstock Act, which bans the mailing of “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.”
But according to Rampell, the law doesn’t actually mean what it says:
Senator Ted Cruz asked Todd Blanche whether he would commit to enforcing the Comstock Act, which is this dead letter law that basically says, you know, it's an anti-obscenity law… things cannot be mailed through the postal service, which has been interpreted to mean by the far-right, by the Project 2025 people, that that means you cannot ship Mifepristone, an abortion and miscarriage treatment pill, through the mail.
