EXCLUSIVE— An anti-abortion group is pressuring Attorney General Pam Bondi to begin enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibits the shipping of abortion-related drugs through the mail, according to a new letter.
The correspondence, obtained by the Washington Examiner, was sent to Bondi on Monday by Students for Life America, a group that has long championed ending access to abortion and abortion-related medication.
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“Attorney General Bondi, we ask you to enforce the Comstock Act immediately and investigate violators of the prohibition to mail Chemical Abortion Pills, both in the U.S. and internationally,” Students for Life America President Kristan Hawkins wrote in the letter.
“Enforcing the Comstock Act is the right thing to do for preborn babies, for mothers, and for the environment. It shows respect for the law and the states,” the letter continues. “The failure to do so makes all the wrong people happy — pill pushers and abusers
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