Posted on 04/14/2022 2:40:02 PM PDT by grundle
There was less of a baby bust than expected because of COVID-19 — but that doesn't reflect changing family planning dynamics in the United States.
Instead, it's indicative of shrinking access to abortions and birth control across the country, especially for low-income women.
That's according to a recent paper published by the National Bureau for Economic Research, which found that the 2020 COVID-19 recession was much different than earlier recessions, in that the number of babies born barely changed. The Brookings Institute predicted in 2020 that the pandemic would likely lead to a large, lasting baby bust, projecting 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births in 2021. In reality, there were only 60,000 fewer babies born because of the pandemic.
The NBER researchers found that because access to contraception and abortion fell in 2020 as reproductive health centers temporarily closed or reduced their capacity, low-income women are especially experiencing a "large increase in unplanned births."
That's as the pandemic has made having children less financially feasible for struggling households. During 2020, poverty increased across the US, and a third of American women said they wanted to delay pregnancy or have fewer children because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a 2020 Guttmacher Institute survey of 2,000 people. Minority, low-income, and queer women were especially likely to say their family planning goals had changed.
Revisions that former President Donald Trump made to Title X, the country's only national, federally funded family planning program, also limited the number of abortions low-income women had during the pandemic, the researchers said. And the surge of new abortion restrictions across mostly Republican-led states over the last few months may make reproductive healthcare access even more difficult over the next few years.
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“reproductive healthcare” = baby murdering
A “baby bust” doesn’t happen when everyone is locked at home together indoors for a year with nothing to do, and nowhere to go.
And the progressives are left scratching their heads, completely mystified.
The NBER researchers found that because access to contraception and abortion fell in 2020 as reproductive health centers temporarily closed or reduced their capacity, low-income women are especially experiencing a “large increase in unplanned births.”
BULL. This ought to be very easy to demonstrate based on month by month births.
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They write from the viewpoint that most women don’t want to “burden” themselves with another child, because “birthing babies” is bad. Maybe women being furloughed and spending more time with their kids during the pandemic revived their maternal instinct and they decided “it’s now or never.” This article just goes to show that Brookings Institute can’t predict the future, even with all their “experts.”
These “low-income” women they continually refer to - we note that most Planned Parenthood offices are not in poor neighborhoods, in fact: They are, a great many of them, near colleges and universities.
I actually thought there’d be a boom.
anecdotal:
My two female PAs at my hematologists became pregnant...one gave birth in Oct, other one due May or June. Both fully vaxed and boosted.
Bust?
They were predicting a boom due to people not getting out.
I recall clearly the predictions of a baby boom, not a bust. I think this is fake history.
You can only watch so much Netflix.
That’s how I remember it as well. Lying to promote their pro-abortion and pro-artificial birth control agenda.
And that dovetails in nicely with other “back to being a woman” things that exploded. They all stayed home and played 1950s mommy.
Yeast was unattainable for a while. So were all kinds of baking supplies. Then a run on other cooking supplies. Then they started tending gardens. They exploded home schooling rather than remote with the public school. Many kept kiddos home after the schools opened again. Then throw in that they were scared, upset, and pondering the meaning of life.
And liking what life felt like, they decided to start getting busy making babies.
Mystifying to the baby hating left.
Did they look at the number of miscarriages?
“I recall clearly the predictions of a baby boom, not a bust. I think this is fake history.”
Reshape the narrative is perhaps the proper phrase
One would indeed have expected a surge. Possibly there could be an unknown factor?
Or as I opined on a prev post (and got insightful comments)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4054674/posts
Why would anyone want to have a child in the world today?
Environment changes -- people's behavior changes accordingly.
Thanks for keeping up the numbers! (-:
I am shocked at the gall of portraying mothers who murder their baby daughters and sons as victims.
The babies getting murdered by their mothers are the victims.
All the real **** going on, and the media keeps bringing up trivia that is about 1,024,364 on the list of important stuff.
Shove it, Yahoo. Your name says it all.
Oh, shove it again, just for insurance.
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