{"id":1165,"date":"2003-01-30T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/abortion-and-crime.html"},"modified":"2003-01-30T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T08:17:00","slug":"abortion-and-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/abortion-and-crime.html","title":{"rendered":"Abortion and Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sang sent me an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=174508#Paper%20Download \">article about the abortion issue<\/a>. I confess I didn&#8217;t read the entire sixty-seven pages, but the gist of it is that the crime rate fell roughly eighteen years after the legalization of abortion. It states, &#8220;Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime,&#8221; which blatantly contradicts what the commentary on NPR had said. (Interestingly, it&#8217;s the &#8220;sharpest drop in murder rates since the end of Prohibition in 1933.&#8221; So what is that saying? Give the people booze and free sex and they&#8217;re content enough to not kill?) Basically, fewer young males in the highest-crime areas leads to fewer crimes.  While this makes perfect sense, something about this theory rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it&#8217;s the implications? That women in high-crime areas should be discouraged from having kids? There&#8217;s a leap there to sterilizing women on welfare that makes me too uncomfortable. It&#8217;s too <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767805712\/jennyspage-20\"><i>Gattaca<\/i><\/a> for me. I think I&#8217;d better read the entire report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sang sent me an interesting article about the abortion issue. I confess I didn&#8217;t read the entire sixty-seven pages, but the gist of it is that the crime rate fell roughly eighteen years after the legalization of abortion. It states, &#8220;Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}