What Happens When Texas Blocks Planned Parenthood? Abortions Rise. [unintended consequences]

Austin Chronicle ^ | July 12, 2017 | Mary Tuma

[grundle]

This is a great lesson in "unintended consequences."

[P-Marlowe]

I call BS.

[M-cubed]

I guess they didnt need our money after all......they must be paying out of pocket for their personal choices.....

[Rurudyne]

Yep. So defund PP and anything like it to the nines.

Actually, just cut them off no matter what.

[AndyTheBear]

I like to keep an open mind, but feel dubious of this research. At least superficially it has the scent of activist junk science.

[T Ruth]

Texas A&M University, economics professor

Low credibility source.

[JTHomes]

Seems like the increase is slower than the population increase over the same period. And teen births increased more than abortions, so perhaps a less babies were killed.

[SamuraiScot]

teen abortions increased 3.1% in the following three years while teen births spiked by 3.4% in the following four years.

I feel sure this study was conducted according to the most stringent scientific protocols, isolating the variables perfectly so that there were no viable alternative hypotheses for an statistically insignificant rise in abortions and births--other than that these bad things occurred because Planned Parenthood was cheated out of its fees--which were to be taxed from Texas citizens--for passing out human pesticides to underage girls and encouraging them to grow up to be trollops.

Have I translated correctly?

[gibsonguy]

Hard to trust anything coming out of Austin, the a-hole of Texas.

[Da Coyote]

Mainstream press.

Ergo, fake.

Period.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is an artifact of the necessity to cut funds across the board rather than targeting PP. The courts would not allow that. The cut in contraception was a byproduct of the cut to curtail abortions. Whether it is counter productive in the long run is highly questionable. People can learn to find their contraceptives elsewhere, but it takes time. Once they do, the abortion rate will drop back down.

[TADSLOS]

The study comes less than a week before the Texas Legislature is expected to reconvene on July 18 for a special session with plans to further destroy access to reproductive health care and target Planned Parenthood. Gov. Greg Abbott has included a slew of anti-choice measures in his ambitious 20-point agenda, including a ban on private abortion insurance coverage and preventing local governments from allocating any tax dollars to abortion providers or affiliates.

Awesome. V for Victory!

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[DiogenesLamp]

A new study shows abortion rates have jumped since Planned Parenthood was blocked.

Years ago when I was taking Comp 1, we had to grade each others essays. This one fellow had written an essay, the premise of which was that Capitol Punishment didn't stop Death row inmates from murdering again.

It was stone cold stupid, both in it's premise and it's arguments. This bit of tripe from the Austin Cronicle is the same sort of brain dead stupid.

It turns reason on it's head by arguing that preventing something causes more of it.

Bullsh*t.

[Viking2002]

"In a related study, sales of coat hangers have risen 37%....."

A lamestream rag in Austin, the Left-wing armpit of Texas. I call BS on it before I even read the article. Which I won't.

[dangus]

It’s a great lesson in B.S. 3% is likely LESS than the growth in Texas’ population.

[shibumi]

"This is a great lesson in "unintended consequences."

So is this you coming out *again* in favor of legalized
abortion the same way you have done previously, right here?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3544327/posts?page=20#20

Careful now - Your Libertarian lunacy (and amorality) is showing.

[dangus]

Double-checked: Yup... 3% is less than half of Texas’ 6.9% population growth.

[TheZMan]

There will always be abortions. What needed to stop was US PAYING FOR THEM. Glad I could clarify.

Don’t accept the premise. If someone wants to incur the penalties of an abortion, that’s their problem - not mine.

[Mark17]

Yep, fake news.

[ChildOfThe60s]

isolating the variables perfectly

Hmm, that doesn't sound very inclusive LOL