According to a University of Houston report, the increase reverses a 15-year trend. And unwanted pregnancies will rise, researchers predict.

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.

  • DarkNightoftheSoulEnglish
    1671·
    5 months ago

    Welcome to the point, everyone. Just think of all the low-income suppressed-education workers this will generate.

    • Masterblaster@kbin.social
      50·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        4·
        5 months ago

        It didn’t even put on a new suit. It’s still legal as long as it’s a punishment.

    • runswithjedi@lemmy.world
      34·
      5 months ago

      Bonus points if they’re indoctrinated into Conservatism. But it doesn’t really matter because they’ll gerrymander their rights away regardless.