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Texas SB 8 and the Private Lawsuits Designed to Dodge Judicial Review How Texas wrote a six-week abortion ban that no state official enforced, why that design kept federal courts from blocking it in 2021, and why the trick outlived Roe. The Comstock Act of 1873 and an Old Law Back in the Abortion Fight Why an 1873 anti-vice law that banned mailing contraceptives and abortion supplies is still on the books, how courts narrowed it, and why it now hangs over abortion pills by mail. What the Dobbs Opinion Actually Held, and What It Left to the States A plain reading of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: the majority's reasoning, the three concurrences, the joint dissent, and the open questions it handed to legislatures.