Wisconsin sues FDA for role in causing unintended pregnancies --leading to high costs for the state

Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager joined the lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against the FDA. Lautenschlager charges that the FDA's ideologically-based decision to keep emergency contraception from becoming available over the counter has resulted in many otherwise preventable unintended pregnancies and has driven up costs to the state to care for births to teen mothers. Lautenschlager identifies pro-life forces as the real culprits explaining, "What's happening here is the politics of the federal government, in keeping a faction of the radical right happy, is essentially impacting on the health of many young Wisconsin female residents," she said. "And secondly, it's costing us money as taxpayers."