Statistics For The Common Sense Truth

Stephen Levitt, one of the worlds most respected economists, wrote this in his bestselling book Freakonomics.

Studies in other parts of Eastern Europe and in Scandinavia from the 1930s through the 1960s reveal a similar trend. In most of these cases, abortion was not forbidden outright, but a woman had to receive permission from a judge in order to obtain one. Researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home. Even when controlling for the income, age, education, and health of the mother, the researchers found that these children too were more likely to become criminals.

Perhaps the most dramatic effect of legalized abortion, however, and one that
would take years to reveal itself, was its impact on crime. In the early 1990s, just
as the first cohort of children born after Roev. Wade was hitting its late teen
years—the years during which young men enter their criminal prime—the rate
of crime began to fall. What this cohort was missing, of course, were the children
who stood the greatest chance of becoming criminals. And the crime rate
continued to fall as an entire generation came of age minus the children whose
mothers had not wanted to bring a child into the world. Legalized abortion led to
less unwantedness; unwantedness leads to high crime; legalized abortion,
therefore, led to less crime.

I highly recommend that anyone read this book which has been written by one of the worlds most analytical minds.