The decrease in crime is related to the prior increase in abortions -
fewer potential criminals being born.
source: Ian Ayres, _Super Crunchers_ (2008), p. 13, citing to Steven D.
Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, _Freakonomics.
_Susan Freiman_
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