I read the old Bours appeal back in 2020 (See ). In late April I received an email from Schuyler Frautschi a Milwaukee-born lawyer based in Manhattan, and one of the few attorneys anywhere who had ever heard of Thomas Robinson Bours and his court case before Kacsmaryk revived it: Milwaukee-born Manhattan Lawyer Takes Up the Case 1915) … (the ‘thrust’ of the Comstock Act was ‘to prevent the mails from being used to corrupt the public morals’). This statute ‘indicates a national policy of discountenancing abortion as inimical to the national life.’ Bours v. Plaintiffs are within the zone of interests of the Comstock Act. But Kacsmaryk made it a key to his decision: Wade, this case, like Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban, was largely forgotten, and legally moot. The sentence was stayed, and Bours later won on appeal. He was convicted and sentenced to two years in Federal Prison. The doctor replied by mail that he could undertake a procedure for between $50 and $100. Will you take the girl and relieve her disgrace so she can once more face the world?” We are willing to make any sacrifice to preserve her good name and reputation. Wilson of Sparta, whose daughter was “in a family way” by a “man who took advantage of her innocence” … and “now the hound has deserted her. In 1912 Bours advertised his practice in the newspaper, claiming “WOMEN’S DISEASES a specialty.” At the time abortion was illegal in the United States, and so was any use of the United States mails to facilitate what was called “race suicide.” He received a letter alleged to have been sent by Mrs. Robinson Bours was among over 100 physicians and midwives arrested in a nationwide Federal anti-abortion sweep orchestrated by Taft administration Postmaster General Frank Harris Hitchcock and described at the time as “the most extensive and far reaching ever made by any department of the government.” United States, a 1915 case originating in Milwaukee. Supreme Court, which issued the requested stay on April 21. The dueling rulings of Kacsmaryk and Rice virtually assure a hearing before the U.S. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul joined 22 other states and the District of Columbia requesting a stay on the Texas decision on April 10, arguing “the district court’s ruling was legally erroneous, undermines the regulatory scheme for drug approvals, and presents devastating risks to millions of people across the country.” Also on April 7, an Obama appointee in Washington state, Judge Thomas Rice, ruled that the drug was legal in 18 states. Yet on April 7, Trump appointee Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas ruled the agency erred when it did so and stayed the effective date - over two decades since that date had passed. Mifepristone, a single-dose oral medication used for early-term abortions, was approved for use by the FDA in 2000.
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