auntblabby wrote:
(clicky)Missouri’s attorney general has renewed a push to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone, arguing in a federal lawsuit filed this month that its availability hurt the state by decreasing teenage pregnancy, reports the Missouri IndependentThe 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.
In making the case that the states have standing this time, 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.”
in what other country besides this fkkked up one, is increasing teen pregnancy considered a GOOD thing, or a "GOD" thing? I just had to vent about this cloud-cuckoo craziness.
Hm... I have always been pro-abortion rights. If a Mama does not want to be a Mama, it is probably best for everyone that she not be. The soul will withdraw and visit another emerging life. That is my own view since I first heard about abortion. I have the feeling that the question does not and will not ever concern me and that I should not meddle in the affairs of others. The government should stay out of people's lives.
However, other ways to view abortion is that we are short people and need more of them, that individuals should sacrifice for the good of the nation; or that abortion is murder; or that abortion enables risky promiscuity and undermines marriage and society.
If you accept one of these propositions, then you are against these nasty pills that induce the death of a human being.
Abortion is not pleasant and is traumatizing, and is rather frightening and disturbing to a lot of people, especially those that place a very high value on human life, and might go out of their way, to protect or to help one of us. So, I would be careful about condemning anti-abortionists.
Best scenario, would be if all people planned their children, meticulously. We may be several stages of evolution away from that, though.
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