Lies, damned lies and statistics – especially about highly political subjects like abortion.
We’re told – right across the media – that Texas has had 26,000 rape-related pregnancies since Dobbs. That since the time that a state can ban abortion there have been 64,565 rape-related pregnancies have happened since then. These are numbers that don’t work – damned statistics.
And it is, as they say, problematic—the estimate of 26,000 rape-related pregnancies in Texas. The state seems to have 13,000 reported rapes a year. We think it’s unlikely that each rape leads to two pregnancies. But, yes, of course, we know that rape is an under-reported crime.