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.

  • fine_sandy_bottom
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    11 months ago

    Sure ok. Clearly that’s the work of a lone nutter rather than “republicans”.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Sure but I don’t think he’s an atypical “lone nutter” in eastern washington. He believes a lot of things regular republicans believe and is just acting on them more than most.