Holy shit, the new mifepristone lawsuit claims that mifepristone is suppressing teen birth rates and thus harming applicable states' population growth. (see p. 190)
Literally, and I can't stress this enough, WTF. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.195.1.pdf
Literally, and I can't stress this enough, WTF. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067.195.1.pdf
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/03/red-sex-blue-sex?printable=true
Even though teen pregnancy was lower under GenX.
Gonna lose my mind.
rates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States". As a public health agency, I sincerely hope the FDA response is "yes...that was the point"
WTAF.
They're just mad that lower births will lead to higher wages and fewer employees to choose from in the future.
Ummm...
You cannot seriously argue both “We need more people, so teens must be forced to give birth” and “We don’t have the resources to accommodate migrants.”
And. Yet. 😑
MO laws result “in an average increase in driving distance of 2.2 miles” for an inperson out-of-state dispensing of abortion drugs “compared to a 453-mile increase in Texas ..states with the greatest increases in driving distance also tend to have the greatest estimated increases in births
Oh.
"This study thus suggests that remote dispensing of abortion drugs by mail, common carrier, and interactive computer service is depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States ...."
Immigration to support and enlarge your workforce and tax base.
I recently dropped out of an NP certificate program at Texas Tech and the instructors quite literally would not say the NAME of the drug mifepristone.
Bruh.
It was fucked up then, and what they are doing now is fucked up.
Burn the GOP to the damn ground.
And saying parents shouldn't let their kids have HIV vaxxes to protect them from CANCER because it would encourage them to have sex?
People aren’t living longer; they’re not dying sooner
Infant mortality used to be much higher and dragged overall life expectancy down.
The tobacco companies weren't actually wrong, smoking is amazing like that. Smokers live and work roughly until retirement age, paying tobacco taxes the whole time, then die quickly and horribly of untreatable lung issues. Great for the public coffers. But so so evil.
Search: premature deaths smokers "death benefit"
at https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
For example:
1996 NY Times:
https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=ymjn0045
1998 Washington State vs tobacco, 1st paragraph:
https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=ynlg0049
No tactic is too low. For example, 3 years before Joe Camel was born:
https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=jzyl0056
Read carefully: "younger adults" really ~18yrs or less.
tobacco executives are incomprehensibly ghoulish
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tobacco-giants-would-pay-out-32-5b-to-provinces-smokers-in-historic-proposed-deal-1.7355704
I screamed.
Because it reminded me of what's happening in my home country : we call them Catholiban.
https://bsky.app/profile/nobodyinteresting.bsky.social/post/3l6qinqd3v723
https://bsky.app/profile/kalilchernov.bsky.social/post/3l5av3373kh2n
Also, fuck them.
-republicans
Rhaaaaaah !
GOP WTF?!