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Tue Oct 22, 2024, 05:05 PM Oct 22

Republican Attorneys General to Court: We Demand More Pregnant Teens

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Three state Republican Attorneys General filed a complaint in federal court on October 11 arguing that their states have a right to pregnant teenagers and that right is being violated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The case is one of many ongoing lawsuits targeting mifepristone, one of two drugs used in the most common abortion medication regime in the United States. (When folks say “abortion pills,” they’re usually talking about mifepristone and misoprostol.) The FDA approved mifepristone for abortion and miscarriage management decades ago, and last year, allowed mifepristone to be sent by mail, dispensed online, or at pharmacies.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador—all Republicans—take issue with this. Abortion access decreases teen pregnancy, and they seem to think that is a bad thing.

“Remote dispensing of abortion drugs by mail, common carrier, and interactive computer service is depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States,” the attorneys allege in the complaint, which was filed before forced birth enthusiast Judge Matt Kacsmaryk in the Northern District of Texas’s Amarillo Division. They claim that decreased births constitute “a sovereign injury to the state in itself,” and causes downstream injuries like “losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are reduced.” In other words, uteri are state slush funds, and girls owe the state reproduction once they are capable of it.

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Republican Attorneys General to Court: We Demand More Pregnant Teens (Original Post) In It to Win It Oct 22 OP
Downstream injuries KT2000 Oct 22 #1
Who thinks like that!?! About human beings--minor female children and babies!?! What the actual...!?! Timeflyer Oct 22 #2
They want to control the female. poli-junkie Oct 23 #3

KT2000

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1. Downstream injuries
Tue Oct 22, 2024, 05:33 PM
Oct 22

are babies born into a world unprepared mentally, physically, financially, and emotionally to care for them adequately. Those children enter adulthood ill equipped to be healthy, functioning people. The injuries are seen daily in family courts where children are removed from dangerous homes to be placed into a system that may or may not even be safe for them. Many of the children born into marginal circumstance are the most vulnerable and targets for predators. The sick bean counters such as the a-hole republicans should tally the costs associated with supporting these children through state support and the costs of maladjusted adults who may never have had a chance.

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