How Many of You Know That The Drop in Crime in the 90′s Happened Because of Roe vs. Wade?

That paper has been thoroughly debunked most famously by Steve Sailer as well as two other economists that found fatal flaws in it.

http://www.isteve.com/abortion.htm

As a point of interest, you and I are included in the first generation to be allowed to live in the world of legal abortion.

I know for a fact that my mom was asked to abort me by her doctors.

One interesting byproduct of that choice is the absolute value our parents held in us, and not some version of contempt for not being able to abort us, or for being forced to grow up and be parents in the thick of the 70′s. And, each parental generation that followed do relish in that “extra value” of being given the choice to raise their kids, as do the kids grow in a love-rich environment.

So, besides being able to choose when to have children, and being grateful to have them at all, the new parents were given the period of adjustment to their decision, and could arrange for better timing, and not over suffer the torment of “being stuck”. “Mistakes” don’t happen on the scale that they did in prior years. (I won’t bandy about with this word. It’s used too commonly, and often displays the true feelings of some unfortunate parents.)

To answer your questions:

1. I do not believe this issue is prominent amongst the arguments of abortion, so society at large doesn’t regard this effect at all, much less a positive factor for decision making in this type of legislation. Thus far, the whole focus of abortion has been rather non-intellectual and rather based one the emotional biases of populations segregated by religions and non-religous lines.

2. A responsible society will use this information with regard to the benefits of parents’ rights, and not proliferate the direction of this train of thought. If taken outside the boundaries of prudence, as societies will do to test itself and understand it’s various compasses, the exaggeration of this knowledge would lead to further “cutbacks” in less fortunate corners of not only our nation, but our world, the ones in particular who cannot defend themselves against the cause of “the greater good.” Who would argue against taking the next step, and the one after that? In keeping with my conservative stance, we cannot take too much a stride in this course without ignoring the dire consquences that will result.

Let’s instead limit the scope of what we now regard as a natural right of modern parenting, to establish the home of the next generation in a stable environment, and perhaps when the necessity is called, abort only in due measure, and nothing beyond. Taking this and calling it a benefit makes it an exploitable field, one that can be far more grizzly than any this generation understands.

-=T=-

-=T=-

Another factor that has been hypothesized as an explanation of the decrease in certain types of crimes in the 1990′s is the fact that the drop came the right number of years after lead had been removed from gasoline to attribute the drop to this. (Lead is harmful to the growing brains of children.)