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Missouri Attorney General argues abortion pill will hurt the state by lowering teen pregnancies (www.stlpr.org)

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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.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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. ..

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We also used to have the Fairness Doctrine, which demanded at least some essential elements of truth. Now our media are Billionaire mouthpieces.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

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.