Teen birth rates spiked in Texas after Planned Parenthood was defunded

[TexasTowelie]

Teenage birth rates have increased in Texas since 2011 following efforts to strip away family planning funding by the state government, according to a new study by a Texas A&M alumnus.

The study by Analisa Packham, who received her doctorate in economics from A&M in 2016 and now works at Miami University, claims the reduction of family planning services in Texas has resulted in the closure of 80 clinics and an increase in teen birth rates by 3.4 percent.

Roughly 2,200 teens would not have given birth absent the reduction in Texas family planning funding, Packham wrote.

In 2011, Texas' family planning budget shrunk by 67 percent, from $111 million per biennium to $37.9 million for the following two years, Packham wrote. Planned Parenthood faced the brunt of these cuts.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Teen-birth-rates-spiked-in-Texas-after-Planned-11283376.php

[Stargazer99]

1. Leave it to the Republicans to create more misery than is needed

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. Their object is to create misery.

[joshdawg]

9. That's what they do best.

[stopbush]

2. Hey, that's 2200 more Xianistas to become church members and give away 10%

of their incomes to support the make believe of Xianity.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. 2200 future frontline soldiers is what I was thinking. nt

[3catwoman3]

4. Sur-PRAAHS, sur-PRAAHS...

...sur-PRAAHS! Not.

[progressoid]

5. What? The abstinence method didn't work?

[TexasTowelie]

7. They were actually using the rhythm method,

but they got offbeat.

[Doreen]

6. Yup, all of those babies who will not be taken care of when they are born.