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akuma587 said:

There is a strong correlation between the dates when abortion was legalized and a drop in crime rates around eighteen years later. One of the reasons why is because women are pretty good judges on whether or not they will be able to support a child, and many of them will get an abortion if they don't think they will be able to:

General outline of the theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect

A more in-depth look:

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf

 

And nobody realized until Levitt wrote his very famous book. Economic efficaincy still doesn't make something right though...   I would get booed if I started arguing that we should re-institute slavery in America becuase its economically efficient, even if I had proof that I was right.