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After Abortion Ban, Texas Teen Birth Rate Rises
(www.texasobserver.org)
Welcome to the point, everyone.
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.
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64,000 and counting as of last month
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.
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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.
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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.
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And because conservatives think they'll become obedient housewives instead of feminists.
If thats the intention its skyrocketing the latino birth rates
Give it a generation and Hispanics will be considered white. It'll happen just as it happened to the Irish and Italians and Eastern Europeans.
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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.
you just have to get far enough away to not get burned while you watch the crash.
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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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Texans don't need migrants! They are fucking a whole new working class! Their cousins son who is also your brother and father will be a common relationship term...cousbrodad!
Who's that? Oh that's my Cousbrodad! I don't know my mom, the country of Texas grew me in a concentration camp.... I sweep Main from Eleventh to Mr.Luther King parkway. That's my job!
God damn, just rekt a whole ass state 😭
More future minimum wage workers for the upper class to exploit! Mission accomplished 🇺🇲
Not to mention all that sweet, sweet prison labor!
Isn't that exactly what they wanted? This is a success story for them and a reason to press on.
Yup. More broke mothers, leading to more broke children to throw into the military/prison systems, for the mega rich to exploit via wars and legalized slavery. Capitalism is a blood-god, and it always requires more blood.
Y'all focusing on them hoping to pump out "poor, uneducated wage slaves" or whatever, but there's a much bigger reason why conservatives want those children to be born.
With foster care conditions being so absolutely abhorrent in its current state, it's very easy for a child to get "lost in the system". Add in the trauma of being a child in that situation, and it is a recipe for disaster. These adults.. want those vulnerable kids.
The party who insist they are doing what they do to """protect the children""".
There's a business in that. And there are folks who want those unwanted children.
Sorry, I'm pro-choice and left leaning but I think this is a little far fetched.
Sure ok there are folks who want unwanted children but they're an infinitesimal minority. I don't think highly of GOP voters but they're not quite that diabolical.
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And let me guess - they also declined the federal Medicaid expansion and probably don’t have great social services to start with, right?
Hey Texas, I know that you're ~~anti-abortion~~ pro-life and all but if you don't want your state's teens getting pregnant you should provide adequate birth control measures...for free! Or would that displease Sky Daddy?
The fact that they didn't do that is undeniable proof that it was always about controlling women.
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But it's okay because they're creating more little wage slaves just like supply side Jesus intended.
More legal slaves for the moneyed and political class!
Conservatives are just going to tell them personal responsibilities not to be horny and all that.
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well hopefully we start see some dna tests resulting in criminal charges.
More workers! Definitely need to keep that minimum wage low!
https://www.prb.org/resources/new-study-claims-abortion-is-behind-decrease-in-crime/
Excat opposite of this,
(January 2000) Abortion is a divisive and emotional issue. Add racial overtones and the implication that public officials do not deserve all the credit for reductions in crime during the 1990s, and combustion is inevitable. Informed debate is not. Stanford Law School professor John J. Donohue III and University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt ignited a debate last August when they released a study on the relationship between abortion and crime. Their findings suggest that legal abortions have prevented the births of many would-be criminals. The absence of these people, according to their research, is behind at least half of the dramatic drop in crime rates seen between 1991 and 1997.
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Remember how the cons were gaslighting about how no rights are really going to be taken away? They were just Deeply Concerned (TM) about how Roe had created rights, not that women actually had those rights.
Because they had so many issues with Roe because of "judicial activism" and for no other reason.
Yeah....
Mind. Blown.
Of course they'll just waive that off.
The devil is just testing them with the numbers, just like the story about some guy in the desert being tested too.
Just more thoughts and prayers and everything will be alright~
In related news: Duh.
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