A 15-minute audio production! Five actors and one lawyer read and dissect the Comstock Act from 1873, a zombie law now being used to attack our access to abortion pills.
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The Comstock Act is back! It’s a zombie law from 1873 being used to attack abortion rights and access to abortion pills. What can you do?
In a 15-minute audio production, we probe the Comstock Act!
Five actors and one lawyer read:
— the actual text of the Comstock Act from 1873 (a misogynistic censorship law, outrageous even in 1873!)
–– real-life quotes from moralist crusader Anthony Comstock, who got the law passed and the became its enforcer
— insights on what’s happening today as conservative anti-abortion forces try to use this ancient law to roll back our rights!
Featuring actors Abigail Ramsay, Michelle Liu, Alinca Hamilton, Isabella Gallegos and Carl H. Jaynes
With Farah Diaz-Tello, Senior Counsel and Legal Director at If/When/How, Lawyers for Reproductive Justice
Cindy Cooper, writer; Janet Bentley, director and creative director; Andy Evan Cohen, music; Roly Poly Productions, producer
A project of ReproFreedomArts.org
It’s time to Repeal The Comstack Act!
Read more: Audio: Actors Dissect Comstock Law and Threat to Abortion Pills
Listen: WBAI Radio, Joy of Resistance with Fran Luck on the Comstock Act in Six Parts
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