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Limiting women’s choice could lift the nation’s crime rate (Mega Barf Alert)
NJ.com ^ | AUG 5, 2019 | Albert B. Kelly | Guest Columnist

Posted on 08/05/2019 4:35:06 PM PDT by Morgana

When it comes to the issue of crime and the way we talk about it, we’re in a strange place. For a few years now, we’ve been hearing lots of statistics that tell us that the crime rate nationally, and in many communities, community, is as low as it has been in decades. Yet, the perception lingers that the incidence of crime has never been higher.

There may be several reasons for this disconnect. If I had to venture a guess, one reason would be that some politicians can never go wrong by scaring the hell out of everyone with rampant-crime scenarios, then running on a “tough on crime” platform. It’s a winner almost every time. Another reason for perceptions of out-of-control crime simply may be the omnipresent power of social media, with instant video of things we couldn’t have consumed visually a generation ago.

But, for all of the discussion about crime and why it has dropped to historic lows, something is often overlooked by the public that is just as startling: it’s the apparent connection between legal abortion and reductions in crime.

In 2001, economists Steve Levitt and John Donohue published a paper to the effect that legalized abortion — following the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — was a factor accounting for roughly half the drop in crime nationwide a generation later. In 2005, Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner published the book “Freakonomics,” which exposed this research to a mass audience.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2020election; abortion; crime; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; freakonomics; infanticide; mediawingofthednc; medicareforall; obamacare; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; prolife; smearmachine
Sir they've been telling us this same old lie since Roe. Abortion had made the crime rate go up.

Shut up Sir.

1 posted on 08/05/2019 4:35:06 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Given that the large majority of babies aborted are black this claim means that blacks commit the majority of crimes.

A racist claim? Of course not...because "progressives" are never racist.

2 posted on 08/05/2019 4:39:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Morgana

This is exactly what the El Paso shooter said in his supposed Manifesto - that overpopulation was leading to increased crime.


3 posted on 08/05/2019 4:42:03 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Morgana

Think about it. Which demographic group has really been hit hard by abortions? Which group hasn’t grown in population percentage over the last several decades because so many pregnant women have availed themselves of the procedure? Which group was Margaret Sanger eager to eliminate? And which group tends to be over represented in crime stats?

If the claim that crime rate is down because of legalized abortion, what are they saying to Black America? And yet conservatives are being labeled racist.


4 posted on 08/05/2019 4:42:25 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Morgana

It might be true. I don’t care. I am not going to be for the murder of babies because they might grow up to be bad guys.


5 posted on 08/05/2019 5:00:02 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: hanamizu

If the claim that crime rate is down because of legalized abortion, what are they saying to Black America?


That would be from Freakonomics, an excellent book.
A counter argument is made here.
http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/

I’ll stick with Freakonomics.


6 posted on 08/05/2019 5:01:03 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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