Missouri Attorney General argues abortion pill will hurt the state by lowering teen pregnancies
Missouri Attorney General argues abortion pill will hurt the state by lowering teen pregnancies
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.
I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s when Christian conservatives said that sex Ed was increasing teen pregnancy rates when in reality they had been dropping since sex Ed was introduced. ..
We also used to have the Fairness Doctrine, which demanded at least some essential elements of truth. Now our media are Billionaire mouthpieces.
Has been that way since the mid 80s.
The war against the fairness doctrine was started after the Nixon Watergate scandal and how there was no media apparatus that was 100% on Nixon's side and calling the other side monkeys and bastards.
Vote yes on 3, I guess.
I've been seeing a lot of "No on 3" signs in people's yards, right next to trump/vance signs.
Vote yes on 3 and no on Bailey!
Ah yes, teen pregnancies, the true driver of the GDP. How could I forget? 😂
It's a driver of poverty and rich people get richer by exploiting poverty.
Our state attorney general is a motherfucker, no doubt, but it was still a tad surprising he said this, publicly, out loud, prior to the abortion amendment vote in two weeks.
Fucking lol, wtf
I.......what?
I don't even understand what's being argued. Usually I can argue against a stance, because I see their logic and disagree with it.
In this case, I don't even get the logic.
I'm confused how you don't see the logic. It says right there.
He claims that the lost "potential population" from teen parents will cost the state revenue and political representation.
A person pays taxes. Less people = less tax income. More people = more tax income.
It's entirely idiotic, but it's not hard to understand?
So, to restate your point hopefully in a way that I understand it better, he wants more population to suck money from the federal government but doesn't give a living s*** about helping his constituents.
I guess from an ultra-rightwing christian fundamentalist perspective, abused post-pregnancy teens are what you want. They're the easily impregnable (in all senses of the word) future hardline voters.
You phrased that way too tame for how they're thinking about it.
More teen pregnancies = more mouths to feed = poverty = more wage slaves
Simple: they're now mask off about wanting women to become de facto brood mares and house slaves before they turn 20.
#JustFascistStuff
Is that the legit reason? I mean, in the times I grew up in, I would assume you're being dramatic to prove a point.
But it's 2024......the absurd is reality. What you said has just as real of a chance at being true as anything else with these people.
Trump is over here talking about using the American military against American citizens for being against him. Meanwhile republican voters are in pure denial that he would ever do that, despite him saying so. Word for word. AND he has attempted to do exactly that in the past.
So I don't have the luxery of being able to use common sense to dismiss things as being not credible to be reality. We live in the dumbest timeline. You could make up any dumb shit, and I have no way of dismissing it as being too dumb to be real.
"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.
From the article:
...the attorneys general contend access to mifepristone has lowered “birth rates for teenaged mothers,” arguing it contributes to causing a population loss for the states along with “diminishment of political representation and loss of federal funds.”
I think the population loss in these states is directly related the totalitarian theocratic governments that have been scaring people into leaving.
We need more teen pregnancies because we need more babies to become low wage grunts to work and pay into our social services systems so old people can retire…?
I assume it's similar to the argument Texas or Alabama or whoever used to argue they have standing against federal student loan forgiveness.
Yeah. Same. There no nuance to this at all. The quiet thing was said far more than just simply out loud.
It was shrieked from the mountain tops.