While Planned Parenthood is being attacked and defunded resulting in significant increases in unplanned pregnancies, the National Football League is hailing spikes in births of winning cities nine months following the Super Bowl. It is almost a given that many of these births may not have been a planned aspect of spontaneous Super Bowl after-party celebrations. It is interesting that the NFL has produced and aired the Super Bowl Babies commercial and in the football loving Texas which has defunded planned parenthood saw a calculated a 27 percent in relative rise in births to the mostly low-income women who lost access to Planned Parenthood in the four years since 2011.
The only positive aspect I can see in this sad commentary lauding unplanned pregnancies is the jest that synagogues might whip up enthusiasm for Super Bowl among young couples to aid Jewish demographics. What is important is that the attack on Planned Parenthood and its vitally needed clinics continue.
Pini Herman, PhD. specializes in demographics, big data and predictive analysis, has served as Asst. Research Professor at the University of Southern California Dept. of Geography, Adjunct Lecturer at the USC School of Social Work, Research Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles following Bruce Phillips, PhD. in that position and is President of the Movable Minyan a lay-lead independent congregation in the 3rd Street area which has High Holiday Services every year. Currently he is a principal of Phillips and Herman Demographic Research. To email Pini: pini00003@gmail.com To follow Pini on Twitter: Follow @pinih
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