-Caveat Lector- STOPP International: Study Says Abortion Increases Crime, But Mainstream Media Turns Deaf Ear September 7, 2001 10:01am Source: PR Newswire http://finance.individual.com/display_news.asp?doc_id=CT2001250p1718&page=news WASHINGTON, Sep 7, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- "Why is an academic study, which concludes that abortion increases crime, getting so little media attention?" asked Ed Szymkowiak, national director of Stop Planned Parenthood International, a division of American Life League. "Two years ago, when different researchers released a study which claimed that abortion decreases crime, it made national headlines for months." A May 2001 study by John R. Lott of Yale Law School and John Whitley of the University of Adelaide School of Economics in Australia concludes that legalized abortion in the United States resulted in higher crime rates. Lott and Whitley cite research that suggests that abortion creates a social climate that encourages out-of-wedlock births and single-parent families, which in turn tend to produce children more likely to commit crime. The two researchers also expose the flawed methodology of the earlier headline-grabbing study by John Donohue and Steven Levitt, "The Impact of Legalizing Abortion on Crime Rates," which claims that abortion reduces crime. On page 19 of their study, Lott and Whitley point to statistical evidence that shows legalizing abortion increased murder rates "by around 0.5 to 7 percent." On page 18, the researchers note, "The higher estimated increases in murder imply that legalizing abortion raised the number of murders in 1998 by 1,230 and raised total annual victimization costs from all crime by at least $4.5 billion." The Lott and Whitley study, "Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births," is available online from the Social Science Research Network free of charge at HTTP://PAPERS.SSRN.COM/SOL3/PAPERS.cfm?abstract_id=270126 . STOPP is a division of American Life League, the nation's largest pro-life educational organization with more than 375,000 supporting families. HTTP://WWW.STOPPINTERNATIONAL.ORG [Forwarded For Information Purposes Only - Not Necessarily Endorsed By The Sender - A.K. Pritchard] ------------------------------ A.K. Pritchard The Republican Web pages and email list "And to the Republic for which it stands" http://members.ll.net/chiliast/ God, Guns, Government & History http://members.ll.net/chiliast/GGGH/index2.html Republic USA http://www.republicusa.org/ To subscribe to "The Republican" email list - just ask! [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From "The Federalist Brief": The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1999 (S.1692), as passed by the Senate last week, was introduced by Senator Rick Santorum. During the debate on the Senate floor, we caught this exchange between Mr. Santorum and abortion advocate Ms. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Regarding the issue of when a child's life should be protected, it went.... Sen. Santorum: But, again, what you are suggesting is if the baby's toe is inside the mother, you can, in fact, kill that baby. Sen. Boxer: Absolutely not. Santorum: OK. So if the baby's toe is in, you can't kill the baby. How about if the baby's foot is in? Boxer: You are the one who is making these statements. Santorum: We are trying to draw a line here. Boxer: I am not answering these questions. Santorum: If the head is inside the mother, you can kill the baby. (Supporters of partial-birth abortion show a topsy-turvy view of the world if they are willing to let a baby be killed based on how much and from which direction that baby emerges from the mother.) <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
