This is starting to look dire for certain states.
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At the same time…
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Interesting article. It says Infant mortality increased by 22% in Texas after passage of the abortion ban. We showed them who is boss.
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Exactly and the population is still going down. Since this disproportionately affects marginalized communities I think what the people in those states were hoping for is not going to come to fruition. Who knew they were causing a bigger increase of the melting pot of America.
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They said they wanted them to be born, not that they wanted them to survive. It’s amazing how terrible their healthcare is.
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Abortions are banned in Texas unless there is a direct health risk to the mother, so now they are being forced to carry infants with severe genetic disorders to full term so that they are either stillborn, or die soon thereafter. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/health/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality-invs/index.html
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TX may lose a seat in the House if the population keeps dropping. Remember: The census counts residents (legal or not). With no incoming replacement population, it could happen. THEN things get “interesting”.
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If we remove those above 40, or 50, and have a statewide referendum on abortion ban, I wonder how many states will have any abortion ban.
80 year old geezers voting for viagra to be included in the insurance but banning birth control is the wonder of democracy.
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Hence, the push for a national ban, to whip non-conforming states into line.
Steve
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Sure. The fix for the bad policy is bad policy.
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But… but… we were always told “states decide”…
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Don’t bother… we will fight for removing government from our lives in general; however, as you know everything as an exception, that exception is women’s healthcare, their reproductive rights, their body, etc. You cannot take the exception and question our commitment on the policy. We are very committed.
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Wait until they find out that the births are mostly people getting food stamps and welfare.
intercst
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Except that the populations aren’t going down. Of the 13 states, two had no growth since 2022 but the others grew, some quite robustly. The percentage increases ranged from zero up to 3.9%.
So, perhaps not so dire.
% Increase (2022-2024) All US 1.0 13 states 1.0 New York 0.9 California 0.7 Illinois 0.7
DB2
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If you read the article you will see that it is more up to date than your data.
Not so. From the news article:
“Most notably, economists at Georgia Tech reported in a paper published this month that by mid-2023…”
DB2
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There I fixed it for you.
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Remember the outrage about “octomom”? But then, iirc, she was a POC.
Steve
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As long as they decide the “right” way. If they don’t decide the “right” way, small gummit suddenly becomes “big gummit”, and whips the dissidents into line.
I wonder if someone is thinking about waving the flag of “Federal supremacy” and outlaws states enacting a minimum wage that is higher than the Federal minimum?
Steve
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That is the publication date. Doing research and getting it out is a slow process. From the paper by Dench et al.
“In this study, we examine whether abortion policies in the post-Dobbs era have affected migration on a large scale. We do so using a synthetic difference-in-differences design and migration measures constructed using the United States Postal Service (USPS) Change of Address (COA) records from July 2018 to June 2023.”
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