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Comstock Act (1873)
Sandra Rierson
The brainchild of a zealous and devout New England Congregationalist, Anthony Comstock, the Comstock Act (17 Stat. 599) was passed after little debate in March 1873, in the last days of Ulysses S. Grant's first term as president. The act prohibited the dissemination of any "article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever for the prevention of contraception or procuring of abortion" through the U.S. mail or across state lines. Although the act was amended to delete references to contraceptive devices, it remains on the books today and forbids use of the mails to distribute "obscene" material and anything "which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion...." The act's constitutionality was upheld in three cases on the grounds that the First Amendment does not protect "obscene" speech (Smith v. United States, 1977; United States v. Reidel, 1971; and Roth v. United States, 1957). However, the courts have not ruled on its provisions regarding abortion-related information, largely because they are not enforced
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Contraceptives and inmorality have been illegal before in the U.S. People never actually get to know or have any idea of this. They turned sex from the unitive, conjugal, procreative and spiritual act that it really is into a plaything for degenerates, a consumer good. Sex became cheap.