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.

  • @Duranie
    15•5 months ago

    Today’s neglected and unwanted children are tomorrow’s prisoners? 🤔

        • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
          1•5 months ago

          well the boys do. Once the brothels are full of young unwanted girls they’ll wage a war on prostitution or witches again too. Isnt history fun.

    • SharkEatingBreakfast
      2•5 months ago

      No.

      They’re future sexual abuse victims.

      “Losing” children at the border after separating them from their parents is a very clear indicator of this, as well.