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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•11 months ago

    Are you saying that abortion has kept the black populating artificially low? And that black Americans could have represented a much larger portion of the electorate?

    • @[email protected]
      2•11 months ago

      I posted the website so you can draw your own conclusions, but I don’t believe abortion rates are high enough to draw that conclusion. I’m not even sure what the ratio is nationality. Many big states don’t report by race. In any event the numbers are probably not big enough to suggest they would be a “much larger portion.”