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Legal abortion leads to lower crime rates? Hmm... (1 Viewer)

eoMMan

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Heard a recent Freakonomics podcast episode on this.  Apparently, this isn't a new idea but it was revisited for this episode.

What did Donohue mean by “unwantedness”? He was referring to the expansive social-sciences literature which showed that children born to parents who didn’t truly want that child, or weren’t ready for that child, these children were more likely to have worse outcomes as they grew up — health and education outcomes. But also, these so-called “unwanted” kids would ultimately be more likely to engage in criminal behaviors. Donohue had begun to put the puzzle together when he attended a conference
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion/

Thoughts?

 
eoMMan said:
Heard a recent Freakonomics podcast episode on this.  Apparently, this isn't a new idea but it was revisited for this episode.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion/

Thoughts?
There was a chapter devoted to tearing down "broken windows" in favor of the Roe vs Wade as determining factor for the decline in crime in the original Freakonomics book.

It makes sense

 
Of course, limiting the population and eliminating the percentage of lower class of citizens is always going to be a net positive to most societal metrics.

It is the logical way and always has been.

 
Sad.  They were abandoned by their parents and by those who fought so hard for them to be born.

 
I've long been a proponent of giving the people least likely to be able to raise a healthy child money not to be able to reproduce.

 

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