“It is a crime not to increase the population”: Idaho, Kansas and Missouri’s unprecedented justification for banning women from having abortions

The attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri claim that expanded access to abortion pills “results in potential population loss or population growth.” ” and that “declining births” were “causing sovereign damage to the state itself.” This remarkable claim appears on page 189 of the states’ 199-page complaint….

The states’ complaint is peppered with provocative and irrelevant photos: someone carrying shopping bags that supposedly contain abortion pills; a stack of empty pill bottles; an image of an embryo that is actually no more than a centimeter long and has been enlarged to huge, baby-like proportions. The states claim the FDA’s actions have caused “immeasurable pain and suffering” and harmed “many women.” These claims are contradicted by the facts on the ground. Serious complications were rare with the two-pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol, which now accounts for nearly two-thirds of abortions.

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