Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s contention that a decrease in teen pregnancy could hurt the state financially and politically is “an absolutely insane argument,” his Democratic rival on the Nov.

Fewer teenage pregnancies means a population loss for the states, as well as "diminishment of political representation and loss of federal funds."

Attorneys general from three states, including Kansas, are suing the FDA over recent changes to how abortion pills can be prescribed and received.

Republican-led states are restarting efforts to limit access to mifepristone, the primary drug used in medication abortions, in a bid to address what some experts saw as deficiencies in the case recently decided at the Supreme Court this past spring.