Chipping away Over the last two-plus decades, conservatives have tried to chip away at reproductive rights and access to abortion.
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.
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.
"The estimates suggest that nearly 2,200 teens would have not given birth absent the reduction in Texas family planning funding.".
"Reducing funding for family planning services can have the unintended consequences of increasing abortion and reducing the number of women seeking preventative health care," Packham said.
The program, which helps provide women family planning services, excludes "elective abortions or the promotion of elective abortions. »
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