Timeline March 1873

Events in March 1873 1

• 1873 Comstock Act US law criminalizes mailing "obscene" materials Signed on 3 March 1873, the federal law championed by anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock banned the mailing of contraceptives, abortion-related material, and material deemed obscene. It remained the basis for censorship and anti-birth-control prosecutions in the United States for nearly a century.