Teenage birth rates have increased in Texas since 2011 following efforts to strip away family planning funding by the state government, according to a new study by a Texas A&M alumnus. The study by Analisa Packham, who received her doctorate in economics from A&M in 2016 and now works at Miami University, claims the reduction of family planning services in Texas has resulted in the closure of 80 clinics and an increase in teen birth rates by 3.4 percent. Roughly 2,200 teens would not have given birth absent the reduction in Texas family planning funding, Packham wrote. In 2011, Texas' family planning budget shrunk by 67 percent, from $111 million per biennium to $37.9 million for the following two years, Packham wrote. Planned Parenthood faced the brunt of these cuts. Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Teen-birth-rates-spiked-in-Texas-after-Planned-11283376.php Make sure you put on a Hard-Hat when traveling in Texas
Not as many babies bein' born... CDC: U.S. birth rate hit 30-year low in 2017 May 17, 2018 -- The birth rate for nearly every group of women in the United States fell to a 30-year low in 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. See also: US Births Hit a 30-Year Low, Despite Good Economy May 17, 2018 — U.S. birth rates declined last year for women in their teens, 20s and — surprisingly — their 30s, leading to the fewest babies in 30 years, according to a government report released Thursday.
I don't know about teen pregnancy spiking but I do know that maternal deaths during child birth are higher in Texas than in most if not all third world countries since they kicked out Planned Parenthood.
