A 15-year decline in Texas teen birth rates slid to a stop—and converted into a modest increase in 2022, the year after the state Legislature implemented what was the nation’s strongest ban on abortion, according to new report from the University of Houston’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality.
Welcome to the point, everyone. Just think of all the low-income suppressed-education workers this will generate.
slavery never died. it just put on a new suit.
we fought a war to end it the first time. i fail to see why we should be so polite now.
Holy shit no way
While it is obvious that it would happen, the demographics skew things a bit, since by far the increase was among Hispanic women, while white and black women still showed a decline. I say skewed because Texas has the 2nd or third highest per capita population of Hispanics, so to get a more accurate data point, you would want to know how the teen birth rate of hispanic women from other states was instead of the total of any race.
While it’s a certainty that Texas laws have caused more unwanted teen births, it would be nice to have more accurate data points.
Do you think the abortion law might not have anything to do with the change in birth rate among Hispanic teens? I guess I’m not sure why breaking this out into racial demographics is adding anything to our understanding of the trend.
Examining why hispanic girls seem to be disproportionately affected by the law could be an interesting followon study.
I specified in my comment that I was sure it had something to do with it, but that doesn’t change that it would still be on a downward trend if not for Hispanics, and since there’s only a few states that the hispanic population is large enough to significantly change the data.
As intended, the point is to get white people to breed… I’m sadly not joking
While they would be delighted if that were to happen, in this case, it is poor people they want to breed no matter what color they are. They want all those impoverished babies born so they can:
- Under-educate them
- Force them into crappy jobs that will keep them poor while enriching their overlords
- Convince them that the progressives who want to help them and improve their lives are really their enemies
- Deceive them into voting for the very tyrants who are oppressing them
They don’t really care what color skin the meat they feed into their machine is wearing.
Nah, they want them to all be black, but white is acceptable.
More blacks mean more people they can throw in jails to use as slave labor for their corporate overlords.
They want all the black people they can get.
I’m a native Texan and I’ve got to disabuse you of this notion. There’s definitely an effort to monetize the state’s bigoted legislature. But the end goal of these policies isn’t a large black prison force any more than the work camps in Dachau were about having a large Gypsy/Jewish/Communist labor force.
The goal is to work these prisoners to death until there’s nobody left to arrest.
We continue to have a rich legacy of forced sterilization nationally, particularly in state prisons.
Don’t forget that under supported poverty stricken children often grow up to become under supported poverty stricken veterans and the enlistment rate has never been lower (unless something big has changed). Now who wants to go die for some freedom halfway across the globe!? AMERICA FUCK YEA!
If so, they are once again working against their own goals. I just googled and found this: https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/abortions-by-race/
Now that doesn’t work too well on my phone, but all the states that aren’t whitebread states, the abortion rate is higher among black people, which means an abortion ban is going to have black folks having less abortions than white folks. And that’s before you factor in that white folks are more likely to be able to travel to obtain abortions.
I don’t know whether you’re right or not. It wouldn’t surprise me, but I do feel like anyone smart enough to stack these dominos is smart enough to see where they’ll fall, but this would be far from the first time the right has shocked me with their intellectual failures.
Are you saying that abortion has kept the black populating artificially low? And that black Americans could have represented a much larger portion of the electorate?
I posted the website so you can draw your own conclusions, but I don’t believe abortion rates are high enough to draw that conclusion. I’m not even sure what the ratio is nationality. Many big states don’t report by race. In any event the numbers are probably not big enough to suggest they would be a “much larger portion.”
Oh man, what a backfire.
I’d bet that in aggregate, white women are far more advantaged for traveling and affording an out-of-state abortion than Latina women.
End result is more Latinx babies and less white babies. Conservatives brought about the majority-minority they tried to prevent, thanks to their own hubris.
No doubt they’ll use that to their advantage though. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Sounds like you’re joking, but your correct as well. After all, indoctrination is how religion grows. Why do you think religions are anti-abortion and anti-contraception? There may have been a time when religion was useful, but has long since passed. We need to stop giving religion a voice.
In another decade or so there will be articles about how Texas lacks educated workers and companies can’t entice enough educated people to fill jobs. And every politician will scratch their hate filled little heads trying to figure out why. Many will come to some horribly moronic conclusion that there isn’t enough Jesus or to much social media but none will look back at this and get a clue.
Nah. It’s still pretty de facto segregated here. There are plenty of insulated suburban school districts that pump out business majors studying in no longer diverse University of Texas. Those kids also have the resources to go “visit a relative” out of state should the need to remedy a small inconvenience arise.
For the really hard stuff like engineers, we’ve got those sweet sweet H1-B visas.
I know my opintion may be very controversial. But I think abortions are decisions where life quality of the mother is weighted against the life of the possible child. Hence I am contra abortions exempt from this would be medically necessary abortions where not mothers life quality but life itself is concerned. ( as in my philosophy life should outweigh life quality ) But when you forbid abortions and you force births. Now you have alot of mothers and children with shitty life quality, that you have enforced. There should be soemthing to give life quality back. And that should be the norm. You force people to take a hit on life quality, give em something in return.
The problem is who decides? I am anti abortion so I didn’t have any. That’s it. I’m not telling anyone else what to do. You are saying some bureaucrat somewhere gets to make that call, instead of the pregnant person. Why? Her beliefs don’t matter to you, they don’t count? She has to follow your beliefs?
Now imagne we would use this logic on taxation.
Just because you don’t have something, doesn’t mean the goverment shouldn’t be able to regulate it. And if a goverment in a democracy is the direct result of people’s votes. Why shoudnt people be able to vote on it.
Resources for Texans seeking access to healthcare:
https://wrrap.org/about-wrrap/
If you need help getting an abortion, go to these sites:
These sites offer access to abortion pills, even in Texas. Please be safe and be aware of clinics (e.g. Crisis Pregnancy Centers) that give out dangerous misinformation on abortions and pregnancy.
If you want to give money to some pro-choice charities, try here:
https://fundtexaschoice.org/ - The Dallas-based nonprofit Fund Texas Choice assists Texas residents with lodging and transportation expenses to abortion clinics in and out of state. It also provides information on organizations that can help with funding the procedure.
https://www.laslibres.org/ - Las Libres is a Mexican feminist organization that supports women seeking abortions and control of their own bodies; this now includes those who contact them from the United States.
https://teafund.org - Texas Equal Access Fund provides funding to low-income people in the north, east, and Panhandle regions of Texas who can’t afford an abortion. It also offers emotional support through a confidential text line, support group, and virtual clinic companion program.
https://janesdueprocess.org - Jane’s Due Process helps young Texans navigate parental-consent laws and confidentially access abortion and birth control. It offers Texas teens and young people free legal support, one-on-one case management, and a text line for those needing information on birth control and family-planning services without parental involvement.
https://www.lilithfund.org - The Lilith Fund, an Austin-based nonprofit, provides direct financial assistance to Texans in central and southern regions of the state who need an abortion. It also offers an emotional-support hotline
https://www.theafiyacenter.org - The Afiya Center, or TAC for short, is a reproductive-justice organization in North Texas that provides refuge, education, and other resources to Black women. The center has its own “economic enrichment campaign” focused on funding projects for women of color living with HIV/AIDS (and those at risk). It also supports programs that are providing abortion access in the state.
https://thebridgecollective.org - The Bridge Collective serves central Texans by offering transportation to abortion clinics for people within 100 miles of Austin. It also provides free reproductive-health resource kits to those who are within 30 miles of Austin. The kits include Plan B, pregnancy tests, condoms, and information on sexual and reproductive health.
https://avowtexas.org - Avow (which was previously NARAL Pro-Choice Texas) fights for abortion rights through community building, education, and political advocacy. The Avow Foundation funds research, public education, organizing, and more to educate Texans on the importance of abortion access.
Also: 20 Organizations Fighting the Texas Abortion Ban
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Not an actual organization but I remember when I was on Reddit there is a community of volunteers who will help people in red states get abortions
