Roe vs. Wade caused the sudden decrease in murder and violent crimes in the 1990s?
This question and many others were examined in Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, our February 2011 selection. Selected by David Anderson, the book received a rating of 6.6.
"The numbers we're talking about, in terms of crime, are absolutely trivial when you compare it to the broader debate on abortion. From a pro-life view of the world: If abortion is murder then we have a million murders a year through abortion. And the few thousand homicides that will be prevented according to our analysis are just nothing—they are a pebble in the ocean relative to the tragedy that is abortion. So, my own view, when we [did] the study and it hasn't changed is that: our study shouldn't change anybody's opinion about whether abortion should be legal and easily available or not. It's really a study about crime, not abortion."
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