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[-] yeahiknow3 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Rape isn’t an edge case. 26,000 rape victims have been forced to give birth in Texas in just 2 years (Source).

In total, the study estimates that 519,981 rapes occurred in those 14 states and 64,565 of them resulted in pregnancy. Researchers further estimated that 9% of those pregnancies occurred in states with legal exceptions for rape, while 91% of them occurred in states with no exceptions.

Texas, a state which has no exceptions for rape or incest, was at the top of the list with an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies, over four times more than the next closest state, Missouri, at 5,825.

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