https://abc13.com/texas-abortion-law-no-exceptions-for-rape-rape…
Texas' abortion law does not offer any exceptions for survivors of rape or incest. The state's total in the 16 months after almost all abortions were outlawed is nearly as many as the next six states combined.
Newly-published statistics show the number of rape-related pregnancies after Texas' restrictive abortion law took effect.
A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that there were an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after Texas outlawed almost all abortions. Texas has the highest estimate among the 14 states with total abortion bans, though Texas also has the largest population, according to the study.
Texas' abortion law does not offer any exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
Of the pregnancies, an estimated 5,586 occurred in states with exceptions for rape and 58,979 in states with no exceptions.
The Texas total is almost as many rape-related pregnancies as the next six states combined -- Missouri (5,825), Tennessee (4,990), Arkansas (4,660), Oklahoma (4,530), Louisiana (4,290) and Alabama (4,130).
Researchers said they could not analyze trends over time, so it's not clear if the estimates represent an increase from previous years.
@ZealfulMareDemocrat3mos3MO
My husband & I discussed the other night that we really want our daughter to leave TX. She needs to live & work away from this state. The drs are petrified of what this TX gov will do to them. God forbid she ever has a miscarriage and needs a D & C, she'd have to go out of state!
@LazyPartisanRepublican3mos3MO
No.
A study estimated 65,000 women *could have* gotten pregnant after rape based on projection models. This was the *hypothetical* number for Texas.
No actual pregnancies were reported in the data.
@CulturedCakeRepublican3mos3MO
And just like that, the left has no idea the morning after pill is available over the counter.
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
And not everyone has access to those things, and might I remind you that pills such as that aren’t exactly being made more accessible by the Republican Party in any sense.
@RaccoonPeytonRepublican3mos3MO
The study referenced by the Chronicle has the following conflict disclosures (which the article’s author fails to share):
"Dr Dickman reported that he is a plaintiff in several lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions in Montana. Dr White reported personal fees from the Society of Family Planning Stipend as well as grants from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Collaborative for Gender and Reproductive Equity, and Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation during the conduct of the study. Dr Lupez reported grants from National Research Service Award T32HP32715 during the conduct of the study. No other disclosures were reported."
@ParrotMartyPatriot3mos3MO
Activists. Compensated activists at that.
@RaccoonPeytonRepublican3mos3MO
The study used six-year-old self-reported national surveys to rack up a huge figure of hypothetical rapes (519,981), and then divided that figure per capita, by the length that pro-life laws were in effect, and finally assumed that every eighth vaginal rape of a woman between the age of 15–45 results in conception. Twenty-six thousand Texan babies were born of rape, the researchers suppose.
@WalrusSophiaConstitution3mos3MO
The fact that the American Medical Association would publish this study is an outrage.
@9JDCDNV3mos3MO
make abortions legal to a certain extent again
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
Ban abortion, zero exceptions. We've saved 32,000 lives since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I'm not stopping this fight till we save them all and stop this Second Holocaust, of the unborn.
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
Alright then, here’s a good situation for this: the fetus is guaranteed to die within a few days of birth due to a genetic condition, and the mother is at extreme risk of forced to deliver. You can save 1 life by aborting, and the fetus would’ve died anyway, or lose both of them almost for sure if forcing brith.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
First of all I'd like to say that you do realise that in only 8% of abortion cases is there the smallest detectible degree of risk to the mother or child, so even this was permitted, you'd still be in favour of banning 92% of abortions, and in less than 1% of cases is there danger to both mother and child, so in 99.5+ percent of cases this situation never happens. Now that that's been established, let's look at what you propose
(1) Medical professionals have told us that the child will die if he is not murdered
(2) Medical professionals have told the mother that she will die… Read more
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
Yet another problem with the argument, you rely heavily on two worries: if it’s wrong in their calculations, and that the process is gruesome. This immediately leaves the gruesomeness of that as sort of main-reason of this, and as such, if the gruesomeness were not a problem, would that then be an issue? The abortion provider is also extremely rarely wrong about this type of thing. You are also forgetting that the life of the mother is also at high risk in this scenario, so you are willingly forcing two deaths to ignore having to do one for the fear of gruesomeness, which is an argument that could be dismantled had we simply chosen more humane options, and let’s not forget that painkillers exist in the equation.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
A reminder to everyone – a baby is a baby being regardless of if it came from a healthy marriage or the most atrocious & wicked crime, and should not be forced to pay for the mistakes of his parents. No child is unwanted – the number of couples waiting to adopt children is nearly 250% higher than the number of children murdered in the womb per year in the United States alone. Just some basic facts.
@9JDZ92J3mos3MO
I think that the no abortion law needs to be changed there was no problem with that before
@9JDYR953mos3MO
It's not right that they can ban abortions because it's a woman's choice and their body and they should be able to do what they want with it
@9JDZG8S3mos3MO
Woman should be allowed to decide what happens to their kin.
@9JDVRT23mos3MO
Why are we not stopping raping? What is the government doing to help?
@942V4PT 3mos3MO
An abortion is between a woman and her doctor. A doctor should decide what is necessary. Abortion is healthcare. Victims of rape should not be forced to carry the rapist's baby to full-term.
@9JDV3RNIndependent3mos3MO
I am pro-choice and I think the mothers should have the option to not bring in life if they choose not too.
@9JDSNNY3mos3MO
Abortion should not be banned it’s awful to make a woman keep a baby after getting raped
@9JDRQF3Independent3mos3MO
I think rape is evil but it isn’t the babies fault and did not ask to be born
@9JDNTXD3mos3MO
This is a bi product of banning abortions more people are hurt than helped
@9JDP8SM3mos3MO
I think that is absolute blasphemy they banned abortions so girls that got raped are foreced to have the kid and have a constant reminder that their child was a product of rape and its life altering for the mother and the child
@9JDPPXN3mos3MO
Abortions should be banned after 15 weeks like most European nations with exceptions for abortion or mothers life being endangered.
@9JDPN6D3mos3MO
To see the apparent effects of the Dobbs v. Jackson.
@9JDPJGW3mos3MO
i think that this new given information has a lot to say what abortion bans really do
@9JDKGYT3mos3MO
You guys are a bunch of **** ing idiots. by you guys, i mean the government. you should know why because of that topic alone.
@9JDPHVM3mos3MO
Rape isn't regulated but the pregnancies from it are and that is insnae
@9JDPSW63mos3MO
why isn't it being addressed , especially since its happening so often
@9JDFX653mos3MO
Abortions should not be banned for this reason. And rapist need to be locked up.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
I don't give a d@mn. The baby is a human being no matter where it came from, rape included. Do not punish an innocent child for the mistakes of his father. Morons.
@AbjectWaspSocialist3mos3MO
But Greg Abbott said his abortion ban didn't need an exemption for rape victims because he was going to eliminate rape from Texas.
And now 26,313 Texas women have been traumatized by rape and don’t have the choice but to have their rapists baby.
I hate this so much!!!
@DingoRichieConstitution3mos3MO
Do these numbers also include migrant woman that have been raped?
@9JD5QD73mos3MO
I’d like to know more but they should have the right for an abortion if they so choose
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