From: ahk@chinet.com

Peter Schleifer  wrote:
>On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:26:46 -0500, Stephen Sprunk  wrote:

>>They're also ignoring the fact that murder rates are down nationwide
>>since peaking in the late 1980s/early 1990s; it was the banning of
>>leaded gasoline and the end of the crack wars that did it, not cops.

>I have read of studies which showed that Roe v. Wade was also a
>contributing factor in the decline in crime rates in the 90's.  So, if
>this is true, we should look for correlations between laws which
>reduce the availability of abortion services in an area with increases
>in the crime rates 18-25 years later.

That was popularized by the Freakanomics authors.

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