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Immigrants' Rights at School and ICE Out of Maine Laws
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Invoking the Comstock Act, however, could block patients’ access to both pills [mifepristone and misoprostol] through the mail throughout the U.S., though how the government would enforce the 1873 law to stop postal delivery of the medications to private homes remains unclear.
The Biden administration’s Justice Department in 2022 asserted that doctors could not be prosecuted for mailing abortion pills under the Comstock Act, arguing that since both pills are legal in every state for non-abortion purposes — such as treating miscarriages and postpartum bleeding — it wasn’t possible to prove that they were being mailed for an illicit purpose.
The Trump administration has yet to formally overrule that legal opinion. **A Justice Department spokesperson said Monday that the opinion is now undergoing “a thorough review.”**](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreie52uzey2rghxkei4pqu5e3wuh6vos6vckbzacw3w3kivtqg54sbq)
