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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    ... arguing in a lawsuit filed this month that its availability hurt the state by decreasing teenage pregnancy.
    

    WTAF

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    In other words, the GOP needs more poor uneducated masses in order to have meat for the grinder and votes to stay in power.

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    Missouri = immigrants are taking our homes. We need less people!

    Also Missouri = teen pregnancy isn’t a raging problem any more. We need more people!

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    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?

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

      *Bailey enters the chat*

      “Hey! That’s a great idea!”

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    Really hope this argument reaches SCotUS.

    It’s always good when you finally hear what their real beliefs are, not just the bs they lie and pretend are their beliefs.