> > Abortions cut crime rate in America The Times of London
> > August 10, 1999 THE drop in US crime in the 1990s is directly linked to
> > legalised abortion in the 1970s, according to a highly controversial new
> > study <snip>
I saw this, but I wasn't sure about the source.
I think the phrase "directly linked" is misleading. What they suggest is that
the babies that are being aborted come from backgrounds where they are
statistically more likely to become criminals.
Let's all take a huge leap.
> > I don't think it's our job as economists and scientists to
> > withhold truth because some people are not going to like it, Mr
> > Levitt said.
Ahh, let's hear it for dogmatism. IMHO, it's attitudes like that are indirectly
linked to evolution getting scrapped from the school curricula (before you
respond, I disagree with the school doing that, but I can see why they did).
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