Posted on 09/18/2005 7:19:21 AM PDT by Reconray
Startling drop in crime rate in last 20 yrs. lies in ROE v. Wade...................
(Excerpt) Read more at telegram.com ...
One of my friends was reading a book by some U. of Chicago economics professor that says the same thing. Without reading the rest of this piece, I'd say that's where the writer got the idea.
Interesting, this page seems to have been taken down.
I click on the link and got a window saying that the page has been removed.
Gosh isn't that great. If only they could manage to kill off ALL the people in America, the crime rate would drop to zero!
bump for later
Go to www.telegram.com find opinions then columnists....Southwick..they do this it's Ma.
Reminds me of when I hear people say that the Death Penalty has made crime rates go up in those states.
The book is Freakonomics, and was co-authored by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The argument that they make for abortion=lower crime rates is pretty sound.
Yup, that's the one.
I disagree. He left out some very important data. Figure in all the babies murdered and the harm caused to the women that have had abortions.
It was a University of Chicago professor - anyone who believes his 'analysis' should read the classic "How to Lie with Statistics" - correlation and causation are two entirely different things - the 'prof' has an agenda.
Recall that getting funding in academia and research requires controversy and finding a 'real' problem - that's what drives the fabrication and inaccuracies in so much 'scientific' studie - which was covered here in the last couple of weeks.
He was analyzing crime, not abortion.
2. This page isn't found, btw.
The U. of C. Economics Department is fairly sound. If this guy failed to take confounding variables into account, he'll hear about it soon enough.
I can't remember this quote for word for word ...
"Every new life is viewed as a potential problem through the eyes of liberals. To conservatives, every new life is veiwed as a potential solution to a problem."
-- Jim Quinn
Same thing IMO. If a person doesn't believe aborting a baby is murder then his results could be acceptable I guess. I believe that each baby killed is a crime against God so I can't accept his conclusion. If you added each baby that is aborted hourly in your state then your murder rate would dramtically increase.
Mooe IMPORTANT than the article is that it even made it into a Massachusetts newspaper.
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