Matthew Kacsmaryk 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/12/2023
Judge Kacsmaryk Misread the Comstock Act
by Lauren MacIvor Thompson
The initial draft of the 1873 anti-obscenity legislation, which banned mailing information about and devices or medicines intended to induce abortion, had an exemption for physicians, and later court precedents interpreted the act as if that exemption were part of the law. Judge Kacsmaryk has ignored this legal history in his ruling.
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SOURCE: The American Prospect
4/10/2023
Federal Judges Explain Things to Me
by Felicia Kornbluh
An ideological and fact-challeged ruling by a single judge to revoke the FDA's approval of mifepristone shows the danger of years of complacency about the security of reproductive freedom.