“A difficult home
environment leads to an increased risk of criminal activity. Increased abortion
reduced unwantedness and therefore lower criminal activity.” New Attention for the Idea That Abortion Averts Crime: “John J. Donohue III of Stanford Law School and
Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago… insist, however controversial
its implications, that it is impossible to ignore what they say is a striking link
between the introduction of legalized abortion in the early 1970’s and the drop
in crime about 18 years later.” The argument appears flawed, starting from the inability to fix causation in a web of correlation. The public policy implications are even more convoluted. New York Times