| A Leading Anti-Abortion Zealot Just Quit the FBI For the last year, the FBI's co-No. 2 has been an anti-abortion hardliner oddly preoccupied with the earning potential of aborted fetuses. Back when Andrew Bailey was still the attorney general of Missouri, he tried to thwart a pro-abortion rights constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot by arguing that 'aborting unborn Missourians will have a deleterious impact on the [state's] future tax base.' Later, in a lawsuit against the FDA over the abortion drug mifepristone, Bailey and other attorneys general claimed that telehealth access to abortion pills is 'depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers,' potentially leading to a 'diminishment of political representation' and 'loss of federal funds.' |