Downstate Danville has proposed a ban on mailing abortion pills. But civil liberties experts say the ordinance would violate state law. – Chicago Tribune*

“The difficulty here in my opinion is we have state laws and statutes that contradict federal law, specifically the Comstock Act,” Danville Mayor Rickey Williams Jr. said. “We made an oath to uphold the laws of the state of Illinois and the United States, so what do we ... do when they contradict one another?”
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debtsor
3 years ago

So what if it violates state law. The legislature passes laws all of the time that violate not just the law, but the constitution. So if Danville wants to go after abortion clinics opening up in their jurisdiction, in violation of state law, I say go for it. That’s what democracy is. Local government doing what is right.

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