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Originally Posted by Vulcan
If we want to be thoroughly cold blooded about govt. wanting legalized induced abortions, wasn't there a study finding crime has decreased since abortions were made legal. Lots of results both pro and con on Google. It even gets racist with suggestions of favoring black abortions. This can be turned into one ugly debate.
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This wasn't really a study, and it can be found in the book
Freakonomics
Basically, the book was looking at crime rates, and attempting to use statistical analysis to try and attribute what factors had what affect on crime rates. One of the things they found was that a number of years after Roe v Wade, the crime rate started dropping (I can't recall if it was 15 years after, or exactly how many). The idea was that a significant percentage of the criminals were from poor children from poor parents. When the option of having an abortion became available, that option was taken rather than giving birth to an unwanted child. Fewer unwanted children = less future crime.
The book makes a point to say it is not promoting abortion, it only used available statistics to try and track cause/effect. It does NOT "gets racist with suggestions of favoring black abortions." but I'm sure some racists would want to suggest that.