The ongoing battle over abortion pills and outdated laws.

Conservative judges are citing the Comstock Act, a law passed in 1873 to ban sending pornographic literature, contraceptives, and early abortion-inducing substances through the mail, in recent mifepristone decisions. The law has been criticized as overly broad, even unconstitutional, and archaic for much of its 150-year history. However, the anti-abortion movement has revived the Comstock Act as a matter of necessity to achieve a national constitutional ban on abortion, either through a constitutional amendment or a U.S. Supreme Court decision.