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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4065914" data-attributes="member: 18222">That&#039;s exactly what I think.Dimwits and minorities are by far the largest users of abortion services.<a href="http://freakonomics.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://freakonomics.com/wp-content/themes/freako_2.0/images/logo_apple_left.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>ABORTION cuts crime. That claim—first demonstrated by John Donohue, of Yale Law School, and Steven Levitt, of the University of Chicago, in an academic article in 2001<a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2005/12/01/oops-onomics#footnote1" target="_blank">*</a>—is the kind of provocative and surprising conclusion that has made Mr Levitt&#039;s book, “Freakonomics”, such a runaway success this year. Unwanted children, the story goes, are more likely to become criminals in later life. Abortion, legalised throughout the United States by the Supreme Court&#039;s Roe v Wade ruling in 1973, prevents unwanted pregnancies from becoming unwanted children. Higher abortion rates from the 1970s onwards thus help to explain why crime rates fell in America about two decades later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4065914, member: 18222"] That's exactly what I think. Dimwits and minorities are by far the largest users of abortion services. [URL='http://freakonomics.com/'][IMG]http://freakonomics.com/wp-content/themes/freako_2.0/images/logo_apple_left.png[/IMG][/URL] ABORTION cuts crime. That claim—first demonstrated by John Donohue, of Yale Law School, and Steven Levitt, of the University of Chicago, in an academic article in 2001[URL='https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2005/12/01/oops-onomics#footnote1']*[/URL]—is the kind of provocative and surprising conclusion that has made Mr Levitt's book, “Freakonomics”, such a runaway success this year. Unwanted children, the story goes, are more likely to become criminals in later life. Abortion, legalised throughout the United States by the Supreme Court's [I]Roe v Wade[/I] ruling in 1973, prevents unwanted pregnancies from becoming unwanted children. Higher abortion rates from the 1970s onwards thus help to explain why crime rates fell in America about two decades later. [/QUOTE]

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