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.

  • TFO Winder
    11·
    10 months ago

    https://www.prb.org/resources/new-study-claims-abortion-is-behind-decrease-in-crime/

    Excat opposite of this,

    (January 2000) Abortion is a divisive and emotional issue. Add racial overtones and the implication that public officials do not deserve all the credit for reductions in crime during the 1990s, and combustion is inevitable. Informed debate is not. Stanford Law School professor John J. Donohue III and University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt ignited a debate last August when they released a study on the relationship between abortion and crime. Their findings suggest that legal abortions have prevented the births of many would-be criminals. The absence of these people, according to their research, is behind at least half of the dramatic drop in crime rates seen between 1991 and 1997.

    • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      i mean, that basically could be boiled down to

      “people that cant support children are more likely to chose not to have them, leading to fewer impoverished children, teens, and young adults”, and when phrased that way, i think noone would be surprised.