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.”

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    I know that the state is trying to manufacture standing so it can bring the claim, but this is a deeply cynical and unethical argument that I would be embarrassed to make.

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      That means you are capable of shame, though, and could never be a Republican.

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      Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, alongside GOP attorneys general in Kansas and Idaho are using the same logic (benefits of amount of representation at the Federal level) the Southern Slave states used to argue for their right to partially count slaves as a population to gain more benefits at the Federal level. This was called the “Three-Fifths Compromise” source

      “Slave holding states wanted their entire population to be counted to determine the number of Representatives those states could elect and send to Congress.”

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    “Okay okay, fine, you can abort unwanted embryos, but the state should still get to count them as possible population so I can extract power from the nation based upon your existence. Lets compromise on this. How about I get to count 3 of every 5 abortions as population so I get power and you get to keep control of your body. We’ll call it the 3/5ths compromise. Everyone wins!” - Missouri AG probably

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    HUMAN LIFE > $, YOU ARROGANT INHUMANE PIECE OF SHIT! FUCK OFF AND GO EXPLORE YOUR OWN FISCAL VALUE BY REMOVING YOURSELF FROM THE ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL FUNDS!

    These goddamn bastards vacuuming up public funds, political power, and then having the gall to say such reductive insults about the people who put them in power in the first place.

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    Since the fall of Roe v Wade they sure love to shout how “It’s a state’s rights issue.” …so let’s demand the federal government reinstates more stringent rules for dispensing meds on ALL states because apparently teenage pregnancy is actually a good thing now and dis hurts my poor republican fee-fees. Iron clad logic. I might be a little impressed with the level of mental gymnastics these idiots go through if it wasn’t so pathetic and harmful.

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    This has been the real issue all along and I’ve screamed this for years. The ones in power don’t want abortion NOT because of religion but because it will cause a dent to their working underclass.

    Eventually they will just ditch the religion B.S. and all start reveling themselves for what they truly are.

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    “Our political party’s policies are so backwards only a middle school dropout can’t smell the bullshit and our fiscal policy is so fucked that we need to rely on scrounging up whatever federal subsidisies we can find, but we’re the victims here”

    Proceeds to blow millions on a Trump bible contract