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  the UK used to be called the “fifty first states” but I didn’t think it had been made official
context: Bailey didn’t specify what legal action he would take if the pharmacies begin selling abortion pills to Missourians by mail.
  
  That's because there isn't a damned thing he can do. It's not like abortion-rights states are going to extradite their pharmacists for something that isn't illegal in their state.
  More people need to learn the history of the Fugitive Slave Act. It was supposed to be in your high school history class. >
  
  Ya, but these corrupt pieces of shit will no doubt find other ways to harass and annoy these companies in order to score political points with their MAGA base. >
  
  This coming from the corporation worshippers. I guess CVS didn’t donate enough to their campaigns.
  Edit: Ha, they literally didn’t. In 2022 they, as an organization (the website also shows donations by individuals affiliated with CVS but not on behalf of them), donated equal amounts to both the R and D campaign committees. However, in terms of individual candidates, they only donated to D candidates.
  So yeah, of course they’ll be harassed by avenue Q over there. >
  
  The GOP is becoming the anti-corporate party with surprising speed. >
  
  I'd like to make the point that this isn't due to more worker-friendly policy, but because corporations favor stability. The fascist revolution the Republicans keep toying with, and refusal to pay already incurred debts, are not great for economic stability. >
  
  This is true. Business in general always favors stability over volatility.
  And yet many people in this forum will falsely insist CEOs have a fiduciary duty to seek short term gains. It's schizophrenic around here sometimes.
  The reality is the lion's share of C-suite occupants in the US (outside fossil fuels) is blue blood Democratic, through and through. Democrats are more reliable and don't crash economies over stupid piques of spite. >
  
  not sure if that's true.  But certainly executives that have international business and broad employee and customer demographic bases are better served by being "woke" than not. >
  
  
  It was co-signed by attorneys general in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
  
  I can say, in Alaska at least, the voters overwhelmingly told the governor to fuck off trying to ban abortion. He didnt care. >
  
  So sad that Montana and Alaska are there. I used to think of them as closer to libertarian (more of a leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone kind of thing) since that had been my experience, but in recent years it’s become increasingly clear that they’re on board the theocratic fascism train along with the rest of the shitholes. Sucks. >
  
  Our governor is, and yeah he operates that way, but mostly everyone can live autonomously. Abortion is thankfully in our constitution, though he's tried flexing powers through EOs >
  
  I mean, you guys elected the guy who became famous for body-slamming a reporter for no reason. And of course his constant stream of wildly antisocial vitriol. I don’t know if Idaho infected you or what, but it sucks. Lots of Trump Trains and loud, public, batshit crazy conspiracy theorizing up there these days in my experience. >
  
  
  you guys elected the guy who became famous for body-slamming a reporter
  
  What are you referring to here? Dunleavy bodyslammed a reporter when? >
  
  Oh lol, I thought you were talking about Montana. >
  
  Oh, no. Alaska, sorry >
  
  What you said applies to both, funnily enough. >
  
  I've taken this pill several times, none for the purpose of abortion. These extremists should not have any say in health care. >
  
  I don't understand it. It's almost like they are actively trying to increase the pain and suffering of woman who are miscarrying. >
  
  Sometimes I wonder if this is the point, sadly. >
  
  these are people whose conception of heaven includes looking at the torture going on in hell. >
  
  It would be like living next to Auschwitz while having a fun-filled picnic in your back year. 
  "Hey, what's that awful smell?"
  "Don't worry about it, frolic, and grab a beer." >
  
  The nice picnic spots are on the upwind side of the death camp. >
  
  But you can't enjoy the cool breeze unless it smells like the burning flesh of those you despise. >
  
  Can confirm that almost 80 years later, it still smells like death. >
  
  Ah yes, the “small government” camp. Just big enough for the uterus. >
  
  No, it's not "just big enough for"... It's literally that the party of "small government" line is, in itself, something they are lying about. Something every single evil Republican knows is a lie. They lie because that's what fascists do, fascists are liars. It's one of the absurd statements that Republicans tell people because it's party of their propogada plan to take over the country and world and start mass genocide ovens up. 
  This is how Jean-Paul Sartre explained it:
  
  “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
  
  They know they are lying. They don't care that they are lying. It's part of their master plan to take over. Those who believe them are fools who deserved to die. Those who don't believe them are opposition that deserves to die. Note that everyone that is not them deserves to die. And they really and truly plan to murder everyone who is not them.
  It's time to stop waiting for them to start killing people again. It's time to take legal action against them before they complete their conspiracy against the rest of us. >
  
  
  They know they are lying. They don't care that they are lying. It's part of their master plan to take over. Those who believe them are fools who deserved to die. Those who don't believe them are opposition that deserves to die. Note that everyone that is not them deserves to die. And they really and truly plan to murder everyone who is not them.
  
  It bears repeating.  I grew up in a blood-red suburb in Kansas.  I went to school with their spawn.  This is 100% true and what I've been screaming about for years.
  They will never stop until everyone who isn't them is DEAD. >
  
  And this is why they want a dictatorship government so they can mass genocide Americans without repercussions.  They want to turn America into WW2 Germany. >
  
  20 Attorneys General confirm that they hate women. >
  
  20 Attorneys General had better check themselves before they wreck themselves. >
  
  Mmm let them wreck themselves, it’ll be entertaining at least. Unlike the current shitshow which is just depressing. >
  
  Imagine if we had 2 major parties who both wanted to debate ideas about governing and productive ways to move forward as a country rather than 1 that is so fucking tied up in useless culture wars they are turning us into the joke they constantly rail against. >
  
  Its because their ideas about governing are incredibly unpopular and harmful to society. The only weapon they have that is popular enough to get them elected is the  culture warfare stuff. >
  
  I'm so tired of republican culture war shit. >
  
  They’re not, it’s all they have now >
  
  Exactly. Look at all the bullshit McCarthy is pulling in the house right now. >
  
  It'll be fun when it's time for reelection and they passed zero bills into law because they can't play nice with the other side.
  "Look at all the nothing we did" >
  
  That is the point. Republicans do not want the government (read democracy)to function. If the government does not function, it opens the door for them to argue that we should replace our government with another one. >
  
  Republicans are disgusting.  Talk about abuse of power.  They're not far from the taliban. >
  
  Round these parts, we just call them 'Y'all qaeda'. >
  
  Somehow the birth rate isn't rising the way they hoped. >
  
  It's more the suffering rate that they are concerned with. >
  
  There trying to force their misguided religious view on the whole country. >
  
  Feeling very thankful I don’t live in a one of these fascist red state with this third-world oppression of women and minorities. Right wingers have nothing but distain for their fellow countrymen. That’s why they have lost HUGE in the last three elections. Vote Blue 2024 🇺🇸 >
  
  “Man, we sure are getting shellacked in these elections. We need to lurch even further to the nut-house to win next time!!” Repubs, unironically >
  
  What federal law are this AG's claiming the companies would be breaking? >
  
  These are state AGs, they would be enforcing state laws. Most likely they'll tell pharmacies it's illegal to fill prescriptions for these medications from out of state providers, and pharmacies like money, so they will comply. >
  
  
  A letter from Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to the 
  nation’s largest pharmacy-dispensing companies was co-signed by 19 other
   attorneys general, warning that sale of abortion pills would violate 
  federal law and abortion laws in many states. Missouri is among states that implemented strict abortion prohibitions last summer after the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
  
  I'm curious what federal law he thinks they would be violating since he mentioned it in his letter, according to the article. >
  
  
  18 U.S.C. § 1461
  
  The Comstock Act was struck down by the Supreme Court before almost any of us were born. "Has not been amended in a few decades" is a hilariously misleading way to say that. >
  
  I can’t speak for other states but the Gov of SC sounds like Foghorn Leghorn.  Former SC native, now in NC, which is only marginally better. >
  
  He is Foghorn Leghorn. >
  
  To all 20 AGs, I offer a quote from legendary US Army Staff Sargent Lincoln Osiris, "Suck my unit". >
  
  The medications they are trying to ban pharmacies from being allowed to carry are also used to treat some forms of autoimmune diseases and cancers. Maybe pro life might want to take a hard look at the amount blood that will be on their own hands by helping elect these idiots and continuing to do so. 
  These laws deny women and girls access to proper treatment options out of fear of liability to the pharmacy or the healthcare provider even when it’s in the realm of hypothetical outcomes/risk of future pregnancies. To support these laws IS killing somebodies baby only these babies come in all ages and many with families of their own who are completely dependent on them. >
  
  The forced-birthers know this. In some cases they only even know some of the words (such as 'ectopic') they're adding to their banning bills from learning what a particular condition or treatment is.
  The agony, crushing medical debt, sepsis, funeral costs, and ruined lives are the point of all of this: the taboos and rules conservative leaders create NEVER affect them, only those beneath, and every death or denied right is proof of righteous superiority and freedom to their ideology.
  Ensuring your loved ones die in pain, leaving you with six-digit hospital bills while Cruz can fly to Cancun for a weekend on your dime, is the endgame of all "pro-life" legislation. It is porn to their malefic minds. >
  
  Republicans tell companies to limit people’s freedom. >
  
  Republicans demand restrictions on capitalism and the free market. >
  
  Shame most republican AG's know little of actual law. >
  
  They aren’t voted in by the law. >
  
  Most of these assholes would've aborted in their personal lives. Fucking hypocrites
  Always amazes me how a bunch of dicks get to have a say on women & what they can choose >
  
  Articles like this remind me that it’s worth paying the high taxes to live in New York state. >
  
  It's like the fetal heartbeak shit. It doesn't actually exist, but they'll still try to ban something >
  
  Is it a literal abortion pill used by clinics or are they confusing  it with the morning after again? >
  
  Republicans and the Taliban. What's the difference? How long until Republicans are beheading women in stadiums? >
  
  Evangelicals are just the taliban with pretty clothes. >
  
  It’s the same thing, this clothing is just playing to their target demographic to be appealing. >
  
  They don’t fucking care at all about women or babies. This is about serving their masters and toeing the line. Their job is to stroke cock of those they serve, end of story. While vulgar, the evidence shows this because they are not physicians and do not dispense medicine. 
  Each one loves their power and thinks they’ll never die or be forgotten. Yet, each will be thrown in a grave and be forgotten. This is how inept they are. >
  
  Get your children, yourselves, and your money out of Gilead while you still can. >
  
  20 AG’s from the backwards, brainwashed, poor, disadvantaged and uneducated states that you would expect (if you guessed). You’re welcome for the correction. >
  
  20 attorneys general can go fuck themselves >
  
  Hopefully nobody else is fucking them. >
  
  Missouri also has a law that homeless people cannot sleep on public property . And the governor Mike Parsons is incompetent . >
  
  He’s not incompetent. He’s doing exactly what the republicans in charge of the state want him to do. “Don’t attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance” doesn’t apply to republicans. It’s always malice with them, not ignorance. >
  
  
  A letter from Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey
  co-signed by attorneys general in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
  
  There ya go.  A list of states that hate women. >
  
  Hotbeds of deep thought and discourse. >
  
  I imagine their beds aren’t that hot. >
  
  It’s all “free market” and “don’t tread on me” for the christian conservatives until it’s one of their initiatives, then it’s fuck everybody for that cause. 
  Fucking hypocrites. >
  
  I think what these conservative AGs forget is that Liberal Americans are still Americans. 
  Ban whatever you want, we will do it anyway, motherfuckers. There's literally an abortion recipe in the fucking Bible. >
  
  America has a severe Christianist problem. I remember the stupid shite they tried to trick us with as kids. Looks like the cancer metastasized. >
  
  You can't "wait a few more years and try to vote it out again" with a fucking tumor.
  When you refuse to get cancer treatments, the cancer kills you. >
  
  Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia
  Hey Siri, Please file this as: Helpful Guide to places I never want to live >
  
  I'm from Alabama. We were one of the states that had the laws in place to automatically ban abortions as soon as Row was overturned. 
  The red AG here made it a big deal that he didn't want to "punish the women" for abortions, so the law targets the doctors instead. That way he could still act like he was protecting women and supported women. I guess he never really put much thought into how the actual ban would work though and apparently just recently discovered the existence of the abortion pill. His first reaction was to threaten to prosecute the mothers who use the abortion pill under some vaguely related law (basically not an anti-abortion law, but one that makes it illegal to harm an unborn baby by taking a drug; a law designed to deter meth and other illegal drug use by pregnant women).
  "But Steve (the AG), you promised not to prosecute women!". Shocked Pikachu face. So I'm not surprised the knucklehead signed onto this outrageous posturing stunt to try to keep from having to show that he has no issue backpedaling on his promises. >
  
  I'd say that they do it for the pleasure of harming people, but I try not to anthropomorphize republicans. >
  
  Christian Nationalist ARE the N. American Taliban. They need to be purged. …like in the movie. >
  
  There is no federal law against abortion pills at this time!
  Bullies and assholes. I say fuck'em. >
  
  Don't even have to look to know that they are all Republicans. >
  
  FDA needs to curbstomp them >
  
  I dont even have to read the article to know its about the AG strong arming the stores to stop selling and not the other way around.
  And i wanna bet my house texas is involved. >
  
  I find it sad and deeply ironic that state officials want to make FDA-approved drugs illegal. >
  
  Do republicans do anything that’s not complete shit? >
  
  Remember that it’s people that elect these officials and their doctrines.
  Remember we thought no way anyone would vote for a moron like trump and suddenly he won and we had all that issue.
  They are a lot of them and win votes thanks to electorate vote and gerrymandering. They are hiding for now and sometimes show their face if a democract does something really bad. 
  But they’ll come out again and win. 
  Don’t believe in the echo chamber that it’s Reddit. They are a lot of Them. Don’t underestimate them or their candidates and their rethoric. Go out and vote. >
  
  Everyone needs a stash of the pills in case of emergency.   But this is just a cover for what they actually want: control women and get power back for white Christian men. >
  
  Always laugh at old men telling young women what to do with their bodies. >
  
  Dear Twenty Attorneys General Douchenozzles,
  Spend more time prosecuting religious figures who diddle little boys.  Less time on telling women what to do with their bodies.
  Signed,
  Everyone who respects a persons right to chose what to do with their own bodies.
  PS: Go fuck yourselves. >
  
  Are there any women at all in this group of attorneys? Just asking an innocent question. >
  
  Just have to stick to old fashioned methods in those states of drinking, smoking, drugs and kicks to the stomach >
  
  So basically your typical red state date. >
  
  Wouldn't you know it, he's just the guy I would have imagined to be threatening pharmacies. >
  
  What an obnoxiously cryptic headline. Warn them of WHAT? >
  
  Lol love that Walgreens said “we aren’t doing that - but hope to soon.” >
  
  What a weird timeline we have fallen into >
  
  They warned them about not selling cigarettes too. These Stooges should be disbarred. >
  
  I have this urge to take to the streets and start yelling “religion war” like Eric Cartman did with race war. Can we organize 50 attorneys to counter these religious terrorists? >
  
  Missouri -rethuglicans turning it into a flyover State, one crazy anti-female law at a time. >
  
  Where now? 😂 >
  
  Religious extremists are the bain of civilization >
  
  Pretty sure CVS and Walgreens have more money than the backwater ass states that these AGs are from... 
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  (It's a joke... but also not a joke) >
  
  20 attorneys general dont have MDs >
  
  If I were Walgreens I would sue them instantly for harassment, and formally file with the DA for possible criminal charges to each of those lawyers and their law firms. >
  
  There going to back off when they realize that the gop gets rich of Walgreens. >
  
  Which one of those attorney Generals are women? Because that's the only one I'll take seriously. >
  
  Push back. The dispensing of legal  medications cannot be left in the hands of the  Kkkristian taliban minority. >
  
  Pretty sure Walgreens and CVS should just say f u and disregard feckless states.  
  FDA approves so know your damn role states and stay in your lane >
  
  Republicans picking a fight with the pharmaceutical industry? This is gonna get good…. >
  
  Alt title: 20 attorneys general need to stfu and mind their own damn buisness. >
  
  (But leave a few pills in the back in case I knock up my mistress). >
  
  for anyone in these states in need of an abortion go to aidaccess.org they are good and trustworthy people >
  
  Legally, these bozos can’t do shit. Next! >
  
  Politicians shouldn't be involved in the clinical decisions decided by a patient and their medical team beyond writing laws to preserve patient rights. 
  Standards of patient care should be set by professional boards not some dingleberry that thinks you can pray away an ectopic pregnancy or believes that a child born from incest or rape is a gift from a non-existent space man. >
  
  Fuck the religious right >
  
  Like most Republican ‘threats’ it’s blustery fear mongering to pander to their constituents. They wouldn’t do a damn thing unless they can benefit from it somehow. >
  
  They are not abortion pills, they prevent pregnancy. Stop using incorrect clickbait headlines >
  
  They aren't talking about plan B, they are talking about misoprostol and mifepristone. >
  
  Let these backwater redneck states do their thing and then cut them off from federal funding when the massive amount of poor children are born in their states.  I think they want all these unwanted pregnancies just so they can beg the federal government for more bailout money.  They are already the welfare queens of the nation as it is.  Cut them off.  Tell them, fine, if its all socialism to you and socialism is evil, then you get nothing.  Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and find the money yourselves. >
  
  Fuckin racist republikkkan men are obsessed with controlling women but don't fund pre and post pregnancy care close maternity wards and don't want to support these forced birth children. >
  
  Americas version of the Taliban. >
  
  And CVS and Walgreens says 🖕🏾 >
  
  tRumps biggest regret? no abortion pills around for donnie and eric -but he KNEW one day he would go all Marty McFly sniffing Ivanka's panty's >
  
  Those 20 AGs can eat an unborn dick. >
  
  Hey everyone - if you voted Republican and/or didn’t show up to vote - these are the fuckers you supported. >
  
  And many of them did it willfully and in support of these heinous actions >
  
  It would be a violation of Federal Interstate Commerce laws for these Attorneys General to interfere with Walgreens and CVS. >
  
  Correction: period restoration pill >
  
  Oh no they sent Walgreens a letter! I hope it went straight to the trash where it belongs. >
  
  What if a friend or a family member mail them abortion medicine? >
  
  Best is to rename these pills as Jesus Pills & Walgreens / CVS should stop dispensing Viagra/Cialis to these assholes🤬 >
  
  More Republican freedumb. >
  
  I know they won’t because profits, but I wish CVS and Walgreens would stop doing business in these states out of spite. At least pharmaceuticals of any kind. Make sure these AGs are blamed every time someone can’t get any of their prescriptions filled. Go full nuclear like the teachers removing all the books from schools in FL instead of trying to navigate through what books are or are not hurting DeSantis’ feelings that week. 
  “Sorry sweetie, we don’t fill inhalers anymore. You can thank your AG and other state leadership for that” >
  
  It’s just going to get worse
  Need tax payers and soldiers to keep this BS going >
  
  How dare these smug little men pass laws to control women’s bodies! F them and the donkeys they rode in on. >
  
  A fair number of the AG's from these states are females actually. >
  
  Huh so that’s the plural >
  
  20 AG’s just oozing small dick energy >
  
  Fuck these pieces of shit. Mind your own business. >
  
  Theses lawyers can fuck off >
  
  Cory booker did this with FedEx and firearms parts. They just wrote a strong letter and you can't ship them nationally anymore. >
  
  20 attorneys general would be wise to shut up and stand down. >
  
  This time it is actually about state’s rights & these chucklefucks still manage to get it wrong >
  
  How do these amaoral fucksticks look their mothers, wives, daughters, etc. in the eye? >
  
  Can't wait for the supreme court to rule that the FDA doesn't have regulatory authority over food and drugs as well just so they can shoehorn in some more christian taliban bullshit. >
  
  Walgreens and CVS kindly place their letters in the recycle bin. Get fucked you stupid AGs this beyond your jurisdiction >
  
  So much small government, many freedom WOW! >
  
  Is the Fugitive Pharmacist Act coming soon?
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  Fucking ass-hat fascists trying to regulate shit well-outside of their jurisdiction. >
  
  Mind your own fuckin business >
  
  Are all Republicans misogynistic imbeciles? Yes. >
  
  Why do women live in these states? >
  
  I was born there and I’m still a minor with little money so.. >
  
  Make it your mission to get an education and leave that world behind. And obviously don't do anything risky. >
  
  I don't know what to say anymore really. Whole country is fucked eventually. These people don't care about any of us >
  
  Plural of "Attorney General" huh, you learn something new everyday >
  
  And the plural of the “Whopper Junior” at Burger King is “Whoppers Junior.” >
  
  What medication your doctor prescribes for you is protected by the confidential HIPPA laws. Not even these state attorney generals are permitted to know if you don’t want to share. 
  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge. >
  
  So, our anti-female, religious donors need control people, stop allowing women to control their lives, darnit!!! >
  
  So the mail system is Federal, the FDA has approved the drug, and a state law can't overcome either of those things.   
  No standing for a lawsuit against anyone >
  
  These republicans should be facing the death penalty, they are going to be killing thousands of women and born children. Miscarriages are going to go unchecked and women are going to be killed due to lack of medical care. Then the babies that are born are likely to end up in foster care, a system already overfilled or starved to death/die from lack of expensive medical care/etc.... >
  
  Fuck: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia
  Now you know where NOT to live.
  I would bet these Attorneys General couldn’t identify an uterus on an A&P diagram. Fuck them, SCOTUS and ALL conservatives. >
  
  Fuck those assholes. Federal law supercedes state law, period. >
  
  USA is always trying to break up countries all over the world saying "They have different cultures, different people", yet their 51 states have different cultures, different people, and different practices, why are they still USA and not 51 different countries? It is high time USA is dissolved and split into at least 20 countries. >
  
  When did we add a state?
  But I would actually say we would be better off merging some statss and breaking up others.