Kai Wright

Yeah.

So these are the laws that some states like New York passed to say, OK, if you are providing abortion services here, we are going to protect you from prosecution by some outside state that wants to come and grab you.

But Texas will certainly try to come after you.

And so why exactly has Alito brought this up in the course of this ruling?

Like inviting for future cases.

Which is what a lot of people were concerned about in Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in getting rid of Roe in the first place, that he was inviting cases to get rid of same-sex marriage under the same kind of case law.

I'm going to have to read Clarence Thomas on Anthony Comstock.

This is a low point in my professional life.

Okay.

Clarence Thomas's opinion reads, quote, It is a criminal offense to ship Mifepristone for use in abortions.

The Comstock Act bans using, quote, the males to ship, quote, any drug for producing abortion.

Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise.

Criminal enterprises.

I'll fill in the blanks.

This is an anti-imsinity law going back to the 1870s in which Anthony Comstock, one of the most despicable people in the history of the United States.

Even in his time, no one liked him.

Like, none of his allies didn't like him.

He was this guy who collected dildos and sex toys and things.

He had an obsession with anything that produced pleasure, particularly for women.

And he kind of was the pioneer of the idea of vice.