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.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
        21·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          0·
          9 months ago

          But the prisons are for profit. There must be a steady stream of prisoners (that will be used as slave labor) or the prisons go out of business, and the prisons will do everything in their power to make sure that doesn’t happen.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
            01·
            9 months ago

            But the prisons are for profit.

            Everything is for profit. The state is kickbacks stacked on top of kickbacks. They spend $3.5 billion/yr on ramshackle buildings with no AC and prohibition systems that barely function. They can’t keep anyone on staff because even the guards are treated like chattel.

            There must be a steady stream of prisoners (that will be used as slave labor) or the prisons go out of business

            Prison populations have been falling since COVID but spending (and profits) have only increased.

            If every prisoner in Texas vanished tomorrow, I guarantee the private contractors and facilities would still post record profits by year end.