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September 10, 2024

Advocacy Groups Urge Schumer to Hold Floor Vote to Stop Comstock

Abortion rights and HIV/AIDS advocates want to put anti-abortion Senators on the record for their support of a nationwide abortion ban Nationwide – Today, as reported in The Hill, Healthcare…

September 10, 2024

Letter to Congress: Hold a vote on the Stop Comstock Act

Senator Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader United States Senate Dear Leader Schumer, Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republicans have worked tirelessly in state after state to restrict…

June 27, 2024

Netroots Nation: Sen. Tina Smith Joins Reproductive Rights and Court Reform Advocates to Champion Comstock Act Repeal

Panel will discuss building momentum to repeal the dangerous 19th century law BALTIMORE – Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) will join advocates at Netroots Nation to discuss public health threats posed…

June 27, 2024

Illegitimate Court Shows No Urgency in Upholding Life-Saving, Emergency Abortion Care

Nationwide – Today, the Supreme Court punted on Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States, sending the case back to the lower court to avoid making a decision before…

June 20, 2024

Health Rights Group Applauds Introduction of Comstock Repeal

Nationwide – Today, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) is introducing legislation to repeal key provisions of the Comstock Act, a law over 150 years old that anti-democracy and anti-abortion extremists claim…

June 13, 2024

Illegitimate Court Makes Blatantly Obvious Decision

Nationwide – Today, in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on what was otherwise a painfully obvious fact: The plaintiffs lacked…

May 14, 2024

Leading Reproductive Rights & Court Reform Advocates Implore Congress to Repeal Comstock Act Immediately

Nationwide – Healthcare Across Borders (HCAB), Take Back the Court Action Fund, and UltraViolet Action are calling on Congress in a new memo to repeal the Comstock Act, a Victorian-era…

February 22, 2024 Ms. Magazine

Health Care Across Borders: Funding Telemedicine Abortion for People in Abortion-Ban States

February 22, 2024 New York Times

A New Abortion Access Strategy

February 8, 2024

Rights, Health, and Democracy: The Urgent Case for Court Expansion

January 24, 2024 NPR

Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens

January 23, 2024

Healthcare Across Borders Creates Fund Supporting Telemedicine Abortion Pills to Banned States

Nationwide – Healthcare Across Borders (HCAB), an initiative devoted to promoting new models of reproductive, sexual, and gender-affirming care that serve all people in need, announced today the launch of…