Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will not enforce the Comstock Act to restrict the sale of abortion medication via the mail.
During an interview with CBS News in Pennsylvania, Trump was asked by a CBS reporter, “As president, would you enforce the Comstock Act which could prohibit the sale of or the distribution of medication abortion by mail?”
“No. We will be discussing specifics of it, but generally speaking, no, I would not,” the former president said, later adding that “I would not do that,” referring to enforcing the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that banned both the mailing of obscene matter and articles used to induce an abortion….
