Posted on 08/10/2007 12:37:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
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Isn’t that the opposite of what the book Freakonomics proposed?
Yes.
Well no duh it increases the crime rate...it increases the murder rate.
As "Freedomnomics explains, what brought down the crime rate was the death penalty, longer prison sentences, and concealed carry laws.
I used to say that the only thing good about abortion is that is gives us one less future liberal. However the damn things seem to be increasing exponentially!
I read Freakonomics. I found nothing in there that would lead me to believe it was a "manifesto of liberal political and economic theory". On the contrary, I thought it was well written and thought-provoking. When it touched on political issues the authors went out of their way not to add too much social commentary.
Sorry, I posted before I read it.
Irresponsible crackhead fathers have to come up with the money for the abortion or the girls get pissed. Once the word gets around he won’t fess up, all his girls cut him off.
He has to go steal something to pay for the abortion.
A) That was far from the original intention of Pro-Abortionists
B) Who made the abortionists god and choose who would be a violent criminal and who wouldn't?...More innocents STILL were killed in the process
I don’t know... Didn’t the theory on cheating in Sumo wrestling is fostered by the way ranking and scoring system is set up kind of remind you of the way all of the entitlement programs in the USA and other more socialist countries foster lazyness and unwillingness to compete.
Just kidding. Kind of.
Well, given the higher rates of both abortion and crime among black Americans, there does seem to be some statistical merit to the idea.
I’m quite opposed to aborting anybody, but it does seem that the lower socio-economic groups seem to have more abortions.
If abortion were outlawed tomorrow, imagine all the people who would be out of work. First, the doctors and nurses who perform the procedures, then there are the men and women who work at the factories to make the clamps, garbage bags, and vacuum-brain-suckee-thingees and how are they going to put food on their tables?
They don't breed ... they recruit and indoctrinate. That's what public schools are for ... MSM is for reinforcing the indoctrination.
They can prostitute themselves ... it’s what they do already,
I’m fully against all forms of abortion, but Steven Levitt does make an excellent case for the theory that abortion does ultimately lower violent crime rates. His analysis of data seemed spot on, yet in his defense, I really don’t think he was advocating it - just making a point about unintended consequences. I’ll be really curious how this new book treats the data.
Lots of abortions happened. Violent crime rates went down 15 to 20 years later.
The problem with this analysis is that a whole lot of other things also happened. Isolating the effects of abortion as compared to the other huge changes in our society during this period seems to me to be an insurmountable challenge.
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