Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics

BSP9000 · 2022-07-04T15:32:29+00:00

On the one hand, abortion surely has some effect, if for no other reason than there's a high black to white ratio of which women get abortions.

On the other, even Levitt thinks that legalized abortion only accounted for 10% of the drop in crime from the 90's, and thinks mass incarceration was a bigger factor. I think crack cocaine was an even bigger factor for high violence back then.

Everyone's freaking out about Roe v Wade, and it's like: yeah, if every state banned it maybe we'd get a 10% crime increase 20 years later. Since it's only the red states and women can still mostly get an abortion up to 20 weeks, I don't think it's gonna be a big deal.

Like, BLM protests already raised the murder rate by 30% in 2020. Just getting the police back to "as effective as they were in 2019" would be a bigger deal than fighting for abortion rights up to 40 weeks, or whatever it is the liberals want.

tornado28 · 2022-07-04T01:17:40+00:00

Honestly this is the most persuasive argument for abortion for me. It's so intuitively obvious too. If your parents didn't even want you, why wouldn't you commit crime?

Red_Lancia_Stratos · 2022-07-04T04:25:35+00:00

Where is Steve sailer?

Title	Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime* \| The Quarterly Journal of Economics
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