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A 15-year decline in Texas teen birth rates slid to a stop—and converted into a modest increase in 2022, the year after the state Legislature implemented what was the nation’s strongest ban on abortion, according to new report from the University of Houston’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality.

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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 38 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Y'all focusing on them hoping to pump out "poor, uneducated wage slaves" or whatever, but there's a much bigger reason why conservatives want those children to be born.

With foster care conditions being so absolutely abhorrent in its current state, it's very easy for a child to get "lost in the system". Add in the trauma of being a child in that situation, and it is a recipe for disaster. These adults.. want those vulnerable kids.

The party who insist they are doing what they do to """protect the children""".

There's a business in that. And there are folks who want those unwanted children.

[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That is because REPUBLICANS FUCK KIDS AND THEY FUCK THEM A LOT

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Hey look. Someone read between those lines and got it.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And they do it because they think it makes them immortal. They fear death. That dark abyss. Their deeds laid bare, their sins punished.

[–] Duranie 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Today's neglected and unwanted children are tomorrow's prisoners? 🤔

[–] Aylex@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Prisoners, soldiers... The options are endless!

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've heard they yearn for the mines.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

well the boys do. Once the brothels are full of young unwanted girls they'll wage a war on prostitution or witches again too. Isnt history fun.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No.

They're future sexual abuse victims.

"Losing" children at the border after separating them from their parents is a very clear indicator of this, as well.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, I'm pro-choice and left leaning but I think this is a little far fetched.

Sure ok there are folks who want unwanted children but they're an infinitesimal minority. I don't think highly of GOP voters but they're not quite that diabolical.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about the voters. I'm talking about the politicians and people behind the scenes at the top who help to make these policies.

That doesn't make any sense. Politicians want the babies even though voters don't?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure republicans got in trouble in poland recently for trying to adopt large groups of white kids.

Republicans represent rich rural fiefdoms and immigrant labor is a major part of that that can't be overlooked.

Why do you think they've rolled back child labor laws recently? This is their last ditch political response to immigrant labor.

unfortunately the ensuing chaos that happens about 10-20 years down the line after these boom events is what eventually sobers them up as the bodies pile up and the children are killed by industries, the state, crime or chaos.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry mate, this honestly sounds like a bit of a crazy rant. Can you link me something about the push kids?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I meant the polish kids

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apparently its a little crazier than I remember, Matt Shea was a washington state politician, the orphans are ukranian:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ukrainian-orphans-with-matt-shea-in-poland-get-a-polish-legal-guardian/

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure ok. Clearly that's the work of a lone nutter rather than "republicans".

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Sure but I don't think he's an atypical "lone nutter" in eastern washington. He believes a lot of things regular republicans believe and is just acting on them more than most.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

foster care conditions being so absolutely abhorrent in its current state

Does this apply to infants?

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

To a degree, but infants are much easier to place.