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Could the micro decision of Roe versus Wade actually have played a role in reducing the rate of violent crime in the 1990s? Does anyone has an opinion on this issue?

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This question has actually received quite a bit of press recently. In the book Freakonomics, by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner, it was proposed that legalized abortion has led to reductions in violent crime in the late 1980s and early '90s, and continues to reduce crime. The authors correlated the reduction in the birth of unwanted children to the number of criminals in this way: unwanted children receive less parental guidance and ...

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