BABY BOOM: 10,000 More Since Texas Axed Abortion...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Yeah, they'll tell you, what's 10,000 more citizens for the Lone Star State? That's nothing when your population is a few more heads than 30 million. Yes, sir, Texas is gaining on California, the country's most populated state at almost 40 million residents.

Thank Republicans.

Texas has gained those new 10,000 kiddos thanks to its strict anti-abortion politics.

This about that from texastribune.org: [ Close to 10,000 additional babies were born over a nine-month period after Texas banned most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, a new analysis from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows. This is the first analysis of live birth rates since the law, known as Senate Bill 8, went into effect in September 2021. Texas has since banned nearly all abortions from the moment of conception, except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant patient.

Analyzing live births in April through December 2022, the study captures people who were at least seven weeks pregnant when the law went into effect or later became pregnant. The researchers used historical birth data to model how many births likely would have occurred in Texas if the law hadn’t gone into effect and compared that to the number of actual births.

In December 2022, more than a year after the law went into effect, Texas had 5% more live births than would have been expected if the law didn’t go into effect.

"Although our study doesn’t detail why these extra births occurred, our findings strongly suggest that a considerable number of pregnant individuals in Texas were unable to overcome barriers to abortion access," said Alison Gemmill, one of the study’s lead authors. ]

Can we clothe and feed them? The fragile world's population has now exceeded 8 billion, so, again, what's 10,000 more, right? And it may feed that belief that Republicans, a political party comprised mostly of White people, is bothered by the fact that, in Texas, Hispanics are now the largest ethnic group.

You can never plan far-enough ahead, eh?

And, of course, the religious angle plays into this. And, sure again, Republicans have been buoyed by the Evangelical Right - a voter bloc that is still in play for next year's presidential election. They say God is against abortion, although we have not actually heard a word from God about this lately.

We'll see, yeah.

Pro-abortion backers are still out there, still protesting, still on the birth control pill - a pill, btw, as yet not outlawed by government.

Plus, we wonder if Mexico has seen more Americans flying in for abortions. Our southern neighbor okayed abortion at its medical facilities (read Border Clinics into that, too) following the pelvic push in Texas to outlaw the procedure.

Stay tuned...

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