Breaking: Twenty-two Republican AGs support lawsuit to end access to mifepristone abortion drug

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https://www.lawdork.com/p/republican-ags-support-abortion-drug-lawsuit

Nearly two dozen states with Republican attorneys general on Friday announced their support for a lawsuit seeking to end access to the use of mifepristone for medication abortions.

Hours later, nearly two dozen other states, with Democratic attorneys general, announced their opposition to the lawsuit.

The filings came in a lawsuit brought by the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom this past fall. The case, before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, has garnered attention due to its extreme requests, its extremist plaintiffs and lawyers, and the extremist judge they sought out to hear the case.

For the past three months, it could be said that this was a case of extremes.

On Friday, however, nearly half of the attorneys general across the country made clear that the effort to end medication abortion is the national Republican position.

In the first brief, led by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, she argued for Mississippi and 21 other states, “For two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acted to establish a nationwide regime of on-demand abortion by licensing sweeping access to chemical abortion drugs—in defiance of federal and state laws protecting life, health, and safety.” The filing urged the federal court not only to reverse recent changes making medication abortion more easily accessible but also the initial federal approval of mifepristone more than 20 years ago.

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[Samrob]

1. Paint them ALL with the same brush. The public knows they lie so let them all wear the badge.

My protest poster: Do not for any GOP. They lie.

[Warpy]

2. Then let those pro slavery assholes try to do it in their own states.

If they ban it there, there will be telemedicine. If they ban it all over the country, before it is overturned, there will be offshore mail order.

We are not going back to crochet hooks and wire hangers.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Practicing medicine without a license

Lawyers ain't doctors, and there's a reason for that.

[crickets]

5. 👆👆

[Tree Lady]

4. Well that means there are 28 which

don't want it and sounds like more to me. The way it is framed is like, look at all those that want to join this lawsuit. How about 28 AGs refuse to join lawsuit and don't agree!

We are down to red/blue state divide again. And only things with federal protections will be saved in red states.

[musette_sf]

6. FYYFFs

that is all

[onecaliberal]

7. If you are a female or have female organs, republicons want to control/kill us all.

[d_r]

8. "Alliance Defending Freedom"

After all my years this sort of stuff still makes me shake my head

[11 Bravo]

9. Of course they do!