Abortion effect on crime

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  1. Yant0s

    Yant0s Active Member

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    "We estimate that crime fell roughly 20% between 1997 and 2014 due to legalized abortion. The cumulative impact of legalized abortion on crime is roughly 45%, accounting for a very substantial portion of the roughly 50-55% overall decline from the peak of crime in the early 1990s."

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg...te that crime fell,crime in the early 1990s."

    Just a quick thing I pulled off the internet stating that abortion helps decrease crime. I'm sure there are other studies.


    It got thinking who is the main demographic...

    Another article.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436774/

    "Abstract
    Black women have been experiencing induced abortions at a rate nearly 4 times that of White women for at least 3 decades, and likely much longer. The impact in years of potential life lost, given abortion’s high incidence and racially skewed distribution, indicates that it is the most demographically consequential occurrence for the minority population."


    Obviously children being raised by single parents is also a huge factor in the likelihood of the child growing up to be a criminal.
     
  2. FoxHastings

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    That's an odd statement considering abortion was legalized in 1973.



    What has that last sentence got to do with abortion?

    And your point was ?
     
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  3. btthegreat

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    I remember reading this research. The study went back BEFORE Roe to states that had legalized abortion access and crime statistics. The stats suggested that as specific states legalized access in year X, the crime rates began to decline about 15-20 years later. They watched the state crime rate dominos fall at disparate times, before Roe nationalized it across the board.

    crime stats were reduced a decade later because a lot of the juvenile criminals that would otherwise have been born into poverty, abuse, and absentee parents, and ended up as statistics in a police report simply did not exist. Families were stronger when parents were able to control the size of the family and better support the kids that they had, women who might have stayed stuck in abusive relationships, could escape easier without a two year old that they did not want to bring into the scenario in the first place, and who's own experiences were framed by that cycle of abuse they grew up seeing. Communities had less stress later for housing, unemployment, social services etc that served to reduce truancy, drop-out rates, crime rates, substance abuse etc.

    Fox, it was fascinating because I would have never thought to look that far down the road for social impacts of freedom of choice! Women with the right to choose reduce community crime because they are making shrewd judgements about the kind of life that child may borne into without the right support system in those early years.
     
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  4. btthegreat

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    Most women who are deciding whether to have an abortion or not, are trying to look realistically at the prospects of that baby, that child, that young adult to find a good life , a real chance, in the context of support system and community that they will be borne into. This study suggest that those crystal balls that pregnant women are looking into, may be working better than we imagine!
     
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  5. edna kawabata

    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    I read about that in the book Freakonomics over 10 years ago (a good book, did you know street level drug dealers make less than minimum wage, but they hope to move up the chain and wear gold chains), but that theory has been knocked down because crime among all age groups has gone down since the 90s and have continued to go down.
     
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    Freakonomics did study on this and found the same thing IIRC. They also claimed that Bush beat Gore as a result of abortion since there was a major disparity in the predicted voting patterns of fetuses aborted.
     

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