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Teen pregnancy is good, m'kay?
Oct. 24th, 2024 07:36 amFrom this law blog, via siderea:
If mifepristone and other abortifacients is allowed to be sold by mail into anti-abortion states, it poses the danger of reducing teen pregnancy rates, which harms those states by reducing their population and therefore potentially their House representation and Federal funding; this is why those states have standing to sue the FDA for allowing mifepristone to be sold by mail anywhere.
(It's not clear how an anti-abortion state is harmed by mifepristone being sold by mail into other states, which could be viewed as unilaterally disarming by reducing their own populations, House representation, and Federal funding relative to the anti-abortion states.
It's also not clear how a child born to a teenager who hasn't finished school, and probably never will, brings in more Federal dollars than it costs the state.)
If mifepristone and other abortifacients is allowed to be sold by mail into anti-abortion states, it poses the danger of reducing teen pregnancy rates, which harms those states by reducing their population and therefore potentially their House representation and Federal funding; this is why those states have standing to sue the FDA for allowing mifepristone to be sold by mail anywhere.
(It's not clear how an anti-abortion state is harmed by mifepristone being sold by mail into other states, which could be viewed as unilaterally disarming by reducing their own populations, House representation, and Federal funding relative to the anti-abortion states.
It's also not clear how a child born to a teenager who hasn't finished school, and probably never will, brings in more Federal dollars than it costs the state.)
