So I asked the initial question of was contraceptives ever actually illegal in the US. Someone responds with the comstock act. He responds it did not actually make having them illegal. Just sending them in the mail or crossing stat lines with them were illegal (which is true). I point out after looking up the comstock act that it’s passage spurred many states to pass their own laws where having them in your possession or using them were illegal and the worst one was essentially Connecticut where a married couple using contraceptives could face up to a year in prison. So my point was that specific law did not, but it spurred others to pass stricter ones. The response “…move to a state that matches your morals” isn’t relevant to me saying that after that law passed states passed stricter laws in the same vain actually outlawing possession.
Kind of misses my point.
What was your point? Not trolling just curious. I missed it too.
So I asked the initial question of was contraceptives ever actually illegal in the US. Someone responds with the comstock act. He responds it did not actually make having them illegal. Just sending them in the mail or crossing stat lines with them were illegal (which is true). I point out after looking up the comstock act that it’s passage spurred many states to pass their own laws where having them in your possession or using them were illegal and the worst one was essentially Connecticut where a married couple using contraceptives could face up to a year in prison. So my point was that specific law did not, but it spurred others to pass stricter ones. The response “…move to a state that matches your morals” isn’t relevant to me saying that after that law passed states passed stricter laws in the same vain actually outlawing possession.
No but it was illegal within the US which is what my initial question was about.