Tennessee became one of 14 states that enacted total abortion bans after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Now, researchers estimate that nearly 65,000 women became pregnant as a result of rape in these states, including roughly 5,000 in Tennessee.
Estimate: 5K Tennessee pregnancies from rape since TN abortion ban (tennessean.com)
The abortion ban in Tennesse started on July 25, 2022. This means that in 191 there has been 5,000 rapes that left woman impregnated or 26 a day, a skosh over one per hour.
And that number does not include rapes that did not result in pregnancies.
No, we do not have an abortion problem, we have a humongous sexual predator problem and that is not resolved by abortion.
Unless you do a post-birth abortion of the rapists.
Source?
“We made it up”
Just like how hurricane maria killed a billion people in Puerto Rico and it was all Trump’s fault.
They literally make up stuff, call it analysis, and then provide it to the media as a way to bash people they don’t like.
But muh disinformation, bruh….
TN reported ~2100 rapes total for ’22 and I’m seeing 3600 for ’23.
https://ttc.tml1.org/2023/07/14/tbi-most-crime-down-tennessee-2023
https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/rape-statistics-by-state/#tennessee
IOW, they just pulled these numbers our their @sses.
This is an example of speculative “science” created purely for propaganda purposes:
1) This is a statistical model and not based on real pregnancy data.
2) It is not based on validated data about rapes in Tennessee. In fact, the article notes ” no recent reliable state-level data on completed vaginal rapes.” Instead, it took national data from a 2016-2017 CDC survey, and then “apportioned” the data according to the FBI Uniform Crime reports percentages. When they do this, they get over 40 thousand rapes in Tennessee for the middle of 2022 through 2023. The key here is that the CDC data has a broader definition of rape than vaginal penetration that could result in pregnancy, and uses some indirect measures (e.g. visits to sexual assault service centers), and includes things like sex while drunk. This is in contrast to the actual TBI data, of a little over 2000 reported rapes per year, or about 2500 if one includes incest and statutory rape. Thus, they overestimate the number of rapes in terms of reported rape by about a factor of 10. They justify this by noting that most rapes are not reported, which is true, but introduces an important level of error.
3) They also used a cockeyed way of estimating pregnancy rate:
from the data supplement:
Rape-related pregnancy (incidence) during abortion ban period = CVR * a * b
CVR = Completed vaginal rape incidence during abortion ban period (calculated as above)
a = Lifetime rape-related pregnancy rate, 14.9% (CDC 2016/17)
b = Ratio of per-rape pregnancy rate to lifetime rape-related pregnancy rate (Holmes et al, 1996)
Specifically, Holmes et al found a per-rape pregnancy rate of 5% and a lifetime rape-related
pregnancy rate of 6%; hence we estimate the per-rape:lifetime ratio as 5.0/6.0 = 83%.
There is not really a justification for including the “lifetime rape-related pregnancy rate” in this, but they basically double the pregnancy rate by doing this. It would be more appropriate to just use the per-rape pregnancy rate of 5%.
Now, just as the method they use grossly overestimates the rape incidence, the TBI data underestimates it, since it *is* true that many rapes are not reported. Nonetheless, this is an unvalidated speculative piece that is meant to overestimate the number of pregnancies for political purposes, in my opinion.
Using the more restrictive numbers of about 4000 rapes in TN over this period, and a 5 percent pregnancy rate, one would get 200 pregnancies. If one assumes that about a third of rapes are reported, then you would get 600 pregnancies.
Thus, the “real” estimate, in my mind would be anywhere between 600 and 5000 pregnancies.
“Unless you do a post-birth abortion of the rapists.”
– Your proposal is acceptable.
Perhaps they are just relying on bad info. Happens a lot more than you expect.
https://youtu.be/HrDp5ryO5JI?si=tzi34Brna6dAcwYo
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Seriously though… Math is definitely not their strong point. I would gather a guess they are mishmashing statistics, perhaps deliberately, perhaps not.
Actually it’s a LYING problem. They are LYING about the number of women raped.
can’t read source article… paywalled. then again its TN, so maybe I don’t want to read it. 😀