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Texas clinics’ lawsuit over abortion ban ‘effectively over’

There is no more convincing evidence that a strong birth control program reduces abortion and welfare costs.
Now, here's the most astounding part of that story. The initial funding for the project was through a private fund. When the bill for the state to continue funding the project, a project that had just saved the state $111,000,000 in the two years the Republicans voted against the bill and killed it.

Do not, ever, try to convince me that conservative Christians are all about reducing the number of abortions. Or that Republicans are really interested in reducing taxes.
 
Yes, I've heard all this before.

And I've watched certain states slowly make it harder and harder to get one.

From an abortion rights site:

However, since 2010, the U.S. abortion landscape has grown increasingly restrictive as more states adopt laws hostile to abortion rights. Between January 1, 2011 and July 1, 2019, states enacted 483 new abortion restrictions, and these account for nearly 40% of all abortion restrictions enacted by states in the decades since Roe v. Wade. Some of the most common state-level abortion restrictions are parental notification or consent requirements for minors, limitations on public funding, mandated counseling designed to dissuade individuals from obtaining an abortion, mandated waiting periods before an abortion, and unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations on abortion facilities.

How are those challenges going ?
The US is becoming an oppressive country - especially to women.
 
That's the great thing about allowing states to make their own choices. That was the travesty of Roe. Once again, the SCOTUS pushing state authority out of the way in a decision that made no sense and was a real POS (in terms of legal explanation). Harry Blackmunn should be tarred and feathered for his pathetic rendering.
It's been almost a year since SB8 the heartbeat bill of Texas became law. What differences has it made.
On line requests for abortion pills has increased
Abortion doctors have not left Texas as predicted
Corporations that threatened to leave if SB8 passed have stayed in Texas
BUT
Texas tops the nation in teens who give birth multiple times
And a startling proportion of teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 — more than 1 in 6 — already had at least one other child. Analysis by The Texas Tribune using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Texas had the highest rate of these so-called “repeat teen births” in the country, along with Alabama. In the last decade, the state has been in the top five states for repeat teen birth rates.

How will this effect the children of the state
Children who are born to teen mothers also experience a wide range of problems. For example, they are more likely to:
• have a higher risk for low birth weight and infant mortality;
• have lower levels of emotional support and cognitive stimulation;
• have fewer skills and be less prepared to learn when they enter kindergarten;
• have behavioral problems and chronic medical conditions;
• rely more heavily on publicly funded health care;
• have higher rates of foster care placement;
• be incarcerated at some time during adolescence;
• have lower school achievement and drop out of high school;
• give birth as a teen; and
• be unemployed or underemployed as a young adult.4
These immediate and long-lasting effects continue for teen parents and their children even after adjusting for the factors that increased the teen’s risk for pregnancy—e.g., growing up in poverty, having parents with low levels of education, growing up in a single-parent family, and having low attachment to and performance in school.5
Teen pregnancy costs U.S. taxpayers about $11 billion per year due to increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.6 Some recent cost studies estimate that the cost may be as high as $28 billion per year or an average of $5,500 for each teen parent. The majority of this cost is associated with teens who give birth before age 18.7

Does this look like a good outcome for Texas SB8?
 
It's been almost a year since SB8 the heartbeat bill of Texas became law. What differences has it made.
On line requests for abortion pills has increased
Abortion doctors have not left Texas as predicted
Corporations that threatened to leave if SB8 passed have stayed in Texas
BUT
Texas tops the nation in teens who give birth multiple times
And a startling proportion of teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 — more than 1 in 6 — already had at least one other child. Analysis by The Texas Tribune using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Texas had the highest rate of these so-called “repeat teen births” in the country, along with Alabama. In the last decade, the state has been in the top five states for repeat teen birth rates.

How will this effect the children of the state
Children who are born to teen mothers also experience a wide range of problems. For example, they are more likely to:
• have a higher risk for low birth weight and infant mortality;
• have lower levels of emotional support and cognitive stimulation;
• have fewer skills and be less prepared to learn when they enter kindergarten;
• have behavioral problems and chronic medical conditions;
• rely more heavily on publicly funded health care;
• have higher rates of foster care placement;
• be incarcerated at some time during adolescence;
• have lower school achievement and drop out of high school;
• give birth as a teen; and
• be unemployed or underemployed as a young adult.4
These immediate and long-lasting effects continue for teen parents and their children even after adjusting for the factors that increased the teen’s risk for pregnancy—e.g., growing up in poverty, having parents with low levels of education, growing up in a single-parent family, and having low attachment to and performance in school.5
Teen pregnancy costs U.S. taxpayers about $11 billion per year due to increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.6 Some recent cost studies estimate that the cost may be as high as $28 billion per year or an average of $5,500 for each teen parent. The majority of this cost is associated with teens who give birth before age 18.7

Does this look like a good outcome for Texas SB8?

Seems Texas needs to start going after the boys who are knocking these girls up.

Where are these girls parents ?
 
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