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To: Lurker
Read the book Freakonomics. Legalized abortion is a major reason for the sharp drop in violent crime. (A large percentage of violent criminals are parented by under-educated, poor, unmarried women -- the same ones who now are prone to use abortion as a birth control method.)
50 posted on 05/13/2006 3:07:32 AM PDT by JoeGar
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To: JoeGar; RHINO369
New Facts Undermining the Freakonomics Abortion-Crime Theory

'Freakonomics' Abortion Research Is Faulted by a Pair of Economists

Did Legalizing Abortion Cut Crime?

53 posted on 05/13/2006 4:19:09 AM PDT by RobFromGa (In decline, the Driveby Media is thrashing about like dinosaurs caught in the tar pits.)
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To: JoeGar
Read the book Party of Death, which includes some rebuttals to the relevant portions of Freakonomics.
54 posted on 05/13/2006 4:19:43 AM PDT by Dales
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To: JoeGar

Sorry dude - but this claim in Freakonomics has been debunked - just do a google search.

The drop in crime is related to rising sentence lengths and longer imprisonment of offenders.


67 posted on 05/13/2006 5:49:31 AM PDT by tdewey10 (It's time for the party to return to the principles of President Reagan.)
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To: JoeGar
Legalized abortion is a major reason for the sharp drop in violent crime

So, let's see, because you read it in a pop economics book, it's true?

You are a fool if you believe it.

329 posted on 05/15/2006 7:32:36 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (It takes courage to live. Hence, the "culture of death...")
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