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First off  - Congratulations ! this is what YOU voted for..... 

Republican legislators in five Red states want to prosecute women for murder if they get abortions or use certain types of birth control. Jessica Valenti reports, at her excellent Abortion Every Day newsletter, that Republicans in South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, and North Dakota are pushing legislation that would define abortion as murder and, in four of the five states, make women who get abortions eligible for the death penalty. Jessica has been warning us about this for some time and, while these particular bills are unlikely to pass in the next few months, by repeatedly proposing them these Republicans are “normalizing” the legislation and getting it closer to passage with each try. Men who want absolute control over women’s bodies have teamed up with Catholic and Evangelical rightwingers (who generally have the same goal) to bring this into law. My personal bet is that the Trump administration will try to enforce the Comstock Act before the states get this far, and that alone can pretty much end all abortion in the United States. 

Here  is what you need to know about the Comstock  ACT of 1873 - no that's not a typo - Eighteen Seventy Three !!  The penalty for violating the Act is  is  not ambiguous. Persons mailing information about abortion, or drugs or devices to produce an abortion:

"Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, for the first such offense, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, for each such offense thereafter.”

It’s language with regard to abortion is not at all ambiguous:

“Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance … designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use; and

“Every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose; and

“Every written or printed card, letter, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information, directly or indirectly, where, or how, or from whom, or by what means any of such mentioned matters, articles, or things may be obtained or made, or where or by whom any act or operation of any kind for the procuring or producing of abortion will be done or performed, or how or by what means abortion may be produced, whether sealed or unsealed; and

“Every paper, writing, advertisement, or representation that any article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing may, or can, be used or applied for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose; and

“Every description calculated to induce or incite a person to so use or apply any such article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing—

“Is declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.”