Beetem also ruled Monday against abortion opponents who argued that the state auditor’s cost estimates for the measures were misleadingly low because they did not account for potential losses of all Medicaid funding and property and sales tax revenue as a result of lower birth rates.
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But Beetem said Bailey has “no authority to substitute his own judgment for that of the Auditor.”
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