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.

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.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Hey, you know what else decreases your population leading to fewer federal funds and potential loss of political power in the House?

    Executions. But hey, Andrew Bailey didn’t care about that a couple of weeks ago.

    And you know what else also decreases your population leading to fewer federal funds and potential loss of political power in the House?

    Emigration. Is Andrew Bailey going to prosecute people trying to leave Missouri?