This might sound horrible, but what would any lawmaker or politician in Texas (or who supports outlawing abortion) do if they got raped or someone they loved got raped?
26k more dissidents in 20 years thanks.
Bold to assume they're gonna survive that long, it is Texas after all.
Republicans, ladies and gentlemen.
"Mission accomplished."
-Texas GQP
What was the number before that?
In their minds, 26,000 future workers or prison slaves. So for them, it's all going according to plan.
This is what they wanted, right? Punish the women and punish children because a woman got raped?
"But the poor man has to either go to jail, or pay child support! It sucks for him, too!"
So... something that's bad for everyone (except for the rich, who can get safe abortions out of state in secret). Sounds like what the Republicans want!
And cheap uneducated stressed out labor
So there is over 26,000 rapists in Texas alone? I kinda find that hard to believe.
Edit: As of 2024, Texas had a reported rape rate of 51.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, with a total of 14,824 cases reported. This rate is a reflection of the number of reported rape incidents and not necessarily the number of convictions. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/rape-statistics-by-state
Additionally, it was noted that in 2020, there was a significant number of rape offenses in Texas, but the clearance rate for these offenses had decreased. In 2020, there were 1,828 arrests for 13,327 reported offenses. This decrease in clearance rate suggests that fewer rape cases were being solved or leading to arrests. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/09/beto-orourke/texas-had-highest-number-rape-offenses-2020-did-no/
This is a weak response, but I have been contributing lots of money to my local politicians, and I will be writing them regarding this (I am not in Texas.)
This is appalling.
Following the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the researchers estimated there were 519,981 rapes associated with 64,565 pregnancies during the four to 18 months after states implemented total abortion bans.
I find this somewhat difficult to understand... "four to 18 months" is a really wide range. Did they mean "the period between four and eighteen months" following the abortion bans? Is this just poor phrasing? When exactly do these statistics begin and end?
Of those pregnancies, an estimated 5,586 occurred in states with exceptions for rape and 58,979 in states with no exceptions.
This seems to be a very telling statistic as it shows an order of magnitude difference, but it would be more informative if it were normalized for population count and/or rape incident count per jurisdiction.
Texas saw an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions
What was the per-month average prior to the ban? Is this a delta, or is it just representative of Texas in general?
I think there's a very valid point to be made here about correlation between rape incidents, unwanted pregnancies and states with abortion bans, but it's being hampered by very bad handling of statistical data.
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