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.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Nah. It’s still pretty de facto segregated here. There are plenty of insulated suburban school districts that pump out business majors studying in no longer diverse University of Texas. Those kids also have the resources to go “visit a relative” out of state should the need to remedy a small inconvenience arise.

    For the really hard stuff like engineers, we’ve got those sweet sweet H1-B visas.