Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is leading a lawsuit to restrict access to mifepristone, a common abortion medication. He claims that the lost "potential population" from teen parents will cost the state revenue and political representation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21198558

Missouri’s attorney general has renewed a push to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, arguing in a lawsuit filed this month that its availability hurt the state by decreasing teenage pregnancy.

The revised lawsuit was filed by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, alongside GOP attorneys general in Kansas and Idaho. It asks a judge in Texas to order the Federal Drug Administration to reinstate restrictions on mifepristone, one of two medications prescribed to induce chemical abortions.

The trio of attorneys general were forced to refile the litigation after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the original lawsuit after concluding the original plaintiffs — a group of anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations — did not have standing to sue because they couldn’t show they had been harmed.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    91·
    12 days ago

    Is that the legit reason

    With a very high degree of certainty, yes. They’ve really tripled down against women’s rights and for returning to the 50s (1850s, that is) in recent years and saying shit like this out loud, rather than being ashamed of privately thinking it, is completely in step with that tendency.

    I mean, in the times I grew up in, I would assume you’re being dramatic to prove a point

    I know exactly what you mean!

    I’m not old enough to remember the Reagan years clearly, but was growing aware of US politics a few years before Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich really kick started GOP’s turn towards more and more demagoguery and extremism.

    With the Dems utterly failing to stop them pulling the Overton window ever rightward and the well-established GOP policy of ignoring or denying any inconvenient truth, the current fascist lunacy was sadly the inevitable outcome.

    “Hey, Trump just shot Kamala Harris with a gun on stage at a debate”

    And the ONLY thing that makes that stand out as obviously false is the fact that trump is too scared to debate now.

    This is the time we live in.

    Yup 😮‍💨

    As a little bonus info in case you don’t loathe him already: this is also the AG who tried to block the release of at least two exonerated death row inmates in the last few months.