| akuma587 said: Ironically, it is highly likely that the legalization of abortion has actually decreased violent crime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortion_on_Crime "We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion legalization. The 5 states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime."[3] |
Never trust anyone who uses a correlation to support their theories on causation ...
Many people would argue that since most violent crimes are alcohol or drug related that the steady decline in the use of alcohol from the 1970s to today has more to do with the reduction in violent crime. Other people may argue that an increased awareness and a reduction in domestic violence (as well as the elimination of corporal punishment in school) has had an impact on how the number of children who are raised in abusive households, and therefore reduced the violent tendencies in them as adults. And there are some people who would probably argue that other "more productive" outlets for violent behaviour for (young) adults, like sports and videogames, have greatly reduced the need for violent outbursts.
In other words, society has changed dramatically over the past 30 to 50 years and there has been a reduction in many of the things that are associated with violent crime; anyone who is trying to claim that the reduction in violent crime is directly the result of any one change (in particular something which was probably fairly minor like an increase in abortion) has an agenda.
