Every time I inform someone that the abortion-crime hypothesis went bust and point them toward the lead-crime hypothesis instead, it feels like saving a soul...
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There, now your soul is saved. :-) Go, my children, and fight for lead removal! (end)
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Thanks! I love this! ^_^
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From 1972 study: https://bit.ly/2PKdX3F " ..children born to women whose applications for abortion were denied turned out to have been registered more often with psychiatric services, engaged in more antisocial & criminal behavior & have been more dependent on public assistance"
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FWIW, the four countries with the highest murder rate (El Salvador; Honduras; Jamaica; and Guatemala) also have very restrictive abortion laws. I was too lazy to look beyond the top four. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate_by_decade …
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but... pop sci's razor says the most controversial theory that confirms by biases and fits tge data I choose to include is usually the correct one
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Holy cow, from 2005! Didn't know.
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I like to take credit for making this much more public as I was a hurricane in Drums comments section for a few months, then he started writing posts on it.
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Whether or not abortion reduces crime is kind of besides the point
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Based Chris Foote, my intermediate macro prof!
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The author of the Economist article seems to put more than zero stock in the abortion-crime hypothesis, unless I'm reading this wrong. Does it this author think the evidence is less decisive than you do?
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Seriously? A god damned coding error?
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