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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    the Romans ruled half the world and were meticulous and methodical in their record keeping

    Which is why a high profile trial of a famous Rabbi initiated by another famous Rabbi that involved the governor pardoning a known mass murderer to appease a mob just… not making the histories… would be bizarre.

    Of course, this is also two millennia in hindsight and on the eve of a nasty uprising of Jewish dissidents at Masada.

    It isn’t unreasonable to believe the histories of this period were deliberately purged or suppressed, and only survived as oral tradition, for the next two centuries.