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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    Remember how the cons were gaslighting about how no rights are really going to be taken away? They were just Deeply Concerned ™ 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…