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.
Holy shit no way
While it is obvious that it would happen, the demographics skew things a bit, since by far the increase was among Hispanic women, while white and black women still showed a decline. I say skewed because Texas has the 2nd or third highest per capita population of Hispanics, so to get a more accurate data point, you would want to know how the teen birth rate of hispanic women from other states was instead of the total of any race.
While it’s a certainty that Texas laws have caused more unwanted teen births, it would be nice to have more accurate data points.
Welcome to the point, everyone. Just think of all the low-income suppressed-education workers this will generate.
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As intended, the point is to get white people to breed… I’m sadly not joking
While they would be delighted if that were to happen, in this case, it is poor people they want to breed no matter what color they are. They want all those impoverished babies born so they can:
- Under-educate them
- Force them into crappy jobs that will keep them poor while enriching their overlords
- Convince them that the progressives who want to help them and improve their lives are really their enemies
- Deceive them into voting for the very tyrants who are oppressing them
They don’t really care what color skin the meat they feed into their machine is wearing.
Nah, they want them to all be black, but white is acceptable.
More blacks mean more people they can throw in jails to use as slave labor for their corporate overlords.
They want all the black people they can get.
I’m a native Texan and I’ve got to disabuse you of this notion. There’s definitely an effort to monetize the state’s bigoted legislature. But the end goal of these policies isn’t a large black prison force any more than the work camps in Dachau were about having a large Gypsy/Jewish/Communist labor force.
The goal is to work these prisoners to death until there’s nobody left to arrest.
We continue to have a rich legacy of forced sterilization nationally, particularly in state prisons.
But the prisons are for profit. There must be a steady stream of prisoners (that will be used as slave labor) or the prisons go out of business, and the prisons will do everything in their power to make sure that doesn’t happen.
But the prisons are for profit.
Everything is for profit. The state is kickbacks stacked on top of kickbacks. They spend $3.5 billion/yr on ramshackle buildings with no AC and prohibition systems that barely function. They can’t keep anyone on staff because even the guards are treated like chattel.
There must be a steady stream of prisoners (that will be used as slave labor) or the prisons go out of business
Prison populations have been falling since COVID but spending (and profits) have only increased.
If every prisoner in Texas vanished tomorrow, I guarantee the private contractors and facilities would still post record profits by year end.
Y’all focusing on them hoping to pump out “poor, uneducated wage slaves” or whatever, but there’s a much bigger reason why conservatives want those children to be born.
With foster care conditions being so absolutely abhorrent in its current state, it’s very easy for a child to get “lost in the system”. Add in the trauma of being a child in that situation, and it is a recipe for disaster. These adults… want those vulnerable kids.
The party who insist they are doing what they do to “”“protect the children”“”.
There’s a business in that. And there are folks who want those unwanted children.
That is because REPUBLICANS FUCK KIDS AND THEY FUCK THEM A LOT
And they do it because they think it makes them immortal. They fear death. That dark abyss. Their deeds laid bare, their sins punished.
foster care conditions being so absolutely abhorrent in its current state
Does this apply to infants?
Kids having kids is EXACTLY what Jesus would have wanted!
He probably wouldn’t have a problem. Mary was 12-14 years old according to some sources and 15-16 in others when she was pregnant.
Mary was 12-14 years old according to some sources
There is absolutely zero actual archeological evidence of Mary existing, much less records that might match her age at the time of her son’s birth.
She could have been 14 or 40 (or an entirely fictitious amalgamation of folk legends).
These “estimates” inevitable come from cranks whose guesstimates are plus or minus a decade and freaks who want to justify their desire to knock up teenagers.
I find it hard to believe there’s no evidence, I mean, the Romans ruled half the world and were meticulous and methodical in their record keeping. I find it difficult to imagine they have no historical records of Iesus Nazaretum.
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.
May the lord open, I guess?
