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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 124 points 20 hours ago (9 children)

There was a theory that roughly 15 years after Roe v Wade crime started decreasing because people who weren't ready for or didn't want children could now have an abortion. Many of those kids that were previously born "unwanted" were in poor households and so the kids getting to about 15 years old in those conditions would start getting into trouble and start committing crimes.

For any fuckwit that says "make better decisions then! Use protection!" I'm the result of a broken condom, that shit absolutely happens. I was a "pleasant surprise." Honestly I wish they'd have just had the abortion.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 38 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

My sister had her first child because her birth control failed due to another medication making it less effective.

No one warned her about that being a thing that can happen with that particular med. Not her doctor. Not the pharmacist. No one said a thing.. which is super fucked up. She was married at the time, but still. They were not ready for a kid(their words)

This was almost 20 years ago so I don't remember which med it was, and I'm hoping the medical community is better about this now.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's really honestly amazing that there are so many people in this world that don't understand that, A, married couples use birth control and have regular sex and, B, that birth control can fail.

Are they all incels are something?

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

"Your child its a miracle from god!" - anti abortionists

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[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

PSA: Antibiotics will make your birth control less effective.

Also no they do not warn most people about that.

[–] mst@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 hours ago

Wait a moment, antibiotics will break condoms? /s

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 7 points 15 hours ago

Came here to say this. It's not some edge case medicine that people rarely encounter. Just you had a sinus infection and now you're pregnant!

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[–] KaTaRaNaGa@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Detailed in Freaknomics where Romania is used as an example.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It doesn't get brought up because it's not useful to anyone politically. Already support abortion rights? Well then lower crime rates is just a positive unintended side effect of a policy that grants women their inherent right to bodily autonomy. Already oppose abortion rights? Then you probably don't care about crime rates because you already think that abortion itself is a crime.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 33 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I think the 20-24 line is hinting at a bad economy.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You just can't hear that hint over the hint of the constant torment of the growing lower class

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

For real. Middle class was a low but comfortable bar back in 1987 when I was born. My parents went above and beyond having two incomes, one of them being a small business. I do essentially the same thing as my mom small business wise, and my wife makes arguably more than my old man dad, but the thought of doubling our starter home (or even moving out of it) just hasn't crossed my mind.

And we also had kids about three years later on average than my folks did (though compared to my wife's folks, about five years earlier).

The '90s were fucking awesome (except for the acid rain, shit had me spooked in first grade when they played the laser disc about it).

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 243 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Don't worry, Republicans will solve this by banning abortion and birth control nationwide!

They are always thinking of the children.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 163 points 1 day ago (5 children)

And legalizing marriage to minors. And outlawing comprehensive sexual education.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A few Republicans also rape and traffic minors just to show how dedicated they are to countering the declining birth rate!

Pizzagate was projection.

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[–] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 115 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

TIL that America's birth rates have been traditionally driven by teen pregnancies. Nobody tell Tallarico, but ooof.wav

[–] ech@lemm.ee 32 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (15 children)

"Driven" suggest more than half of total pregnancies, which is not true looking at the graph given above. It was solidly ~~third~~fourth* in terms of totals, which is still unsettling, but not as pronounced as your comment suggests.

*I overlooked 25-29

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 37 points 20 hours ago

It was never about stopping abortion. It’s about keeping people in poverty and creating a cycle of uneducated voters that either don’t vote or vote Republican because they don’t know better

[–] mostdubious@lemmy.world 42 points 21 hours ago (49 children)

please stop having babies ffs

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 36 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think it's fine to have kids if you want them but the government trying to get people to have more kids for economic reasons is sickening

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 73 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Not to call out OP, but does anyone have this information in anything other than .png format? There's no timestamps, hyperlinks, or citations anywhere here. I'd love to send this to other people, but I'm not about to copy-pasta something that could be old or inaccurate.

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 76 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not the exact image posted, but this appears to be the source

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db477.htm

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