VGC Poll: Abortion

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Hawkeye said:

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.

Actually I think, that wage slavery is more efficient. If you can pay other people to do something for say three bucks an hour, you don't have to worry about feeding them, housing and clothing them as well as keeping them healthy. Plus paying the people to watch them.