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.

  • conti473
    51·
    10 months ago

    No no no, it’s all religion, ooh say can’t you see?

    • jas0n@lemmy.world
      91·
      10 months ago

      Sounds like you’re joking, but your correct as well. After all, indoctrination is how religion grows. Why do you think religions are anti-abortion and anti-contraception? There may have been a time when religion was useful, but has long since passed. We need to stop giving religion a voice.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        Yet people who think like this are the same who try to turn Atheism into a religion, Scientism over Science… It’s poison