JoeB131
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- Jul 11, 2011
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In addition to this being a total lie, I'm pretty sure it qualifies you as an actual Nazi.
Congratulations.
Hey, just pointing out the obvious.
If you raise a kid in poverty where he gets the blame for the economic woes of parents who never got to go to college or learn a trade and get a good job, his chances of growing up to be criminally inclined greatly increases.
So not surprisingly, when abortion became legal as a form of contraception,and women could put off making their babies until they were actually ready, 20 years after that, the crime rate DROPPED.
Abortion and crime: who should you believe? - Freakonomics
1) Five states legalized abortion three years before Roe v. Wade. Crime started falling three years earlier in these states, with property crime (done by younger people) falling before violent crime.
2) After abortion was legalized, the availability of abortions differed dramatically across states. In some states like North Dakota and in parts of the deep South, it was virtually impossible to get an abortion even after Roe v. Wade. If one compares states that had high abortion rates in the mid 1970s to states that had low abortion rates in the mid 1970s, you see the following patterns with crime. For the period from 1973-1988, the two sets of states (high abortion states and low abortion states) have nearly identical crime patterns. Note, that this is a period before the generations exposed to legalized abortion are old enough to do much crime. So this is exactly what the Donohue-Levitt theory predicts. But from the period 1985-1997, when the post Roe cohort is reaching peak crime ages, the high abortion states see a decline in crime of 30% relative to the low abortion states. Our original data ended in 1997. If one updated the study, the results would be similar.)
3) All of the decline in crime from 1985-1997 experienced by high abortion states relative to low abortion states is concentrated among the age groups born after Roe v. Wade. For people born before abortion legalization, there is no difference in the crime patterns for high abortion and low abortion states, just as the Donohue-Levitt theory predicts.