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Originally Posted by Matata
Conspiracy corner: it was done to curb the swelling poor-black population. Early pro-abortion campaigns were targeted towards poor-black communities and 19 million black babies have been aborted since 1973. Freakonomics famously posed the notion that, in the 90s, many areas in america were trending towards a huge crime wave that never materialized, because abortion had removed a large segment of the population that was trending towards that crime wave.
To this day, the majority of abortions in america are black: https://www.kff.org/womens-health-po...2:%22asc%22%7D |
There was a later analysis of the data from another economist that found lead exposure (gasoline and paint) was also a significant independent contributing affect.
I find your post a little troubling because the Levitt research did not consider race at all but the way you presented your two points flowing together appears to imply that aborting black babies lowers crime which is not what the study has shown. The research just showed that abortion legalization was highly correlated with a crime reduction years later. It made no comment on race. It was discussing unwantedness.
https://www.nber.org/digest/may08/im...re-adult-crime
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abo...ime-revisited/
The podcast transcript above is really interesting because the affect has gotten stronger in the last 20 years than in the first 20. Interestingly if this decisions allows states to ban abortions we should see a crime increase is the states that do relative to the states that don’t in about 15 - 20 years