In the 2000s, abortion became acceptable and normal to talk about and Freakonomics, Market Populism and the Abortion-and-Crime Theory was published in 2005 by economist Steven Levitt from University of Chicago and Stanford law professor John Donohue III about the abortion and-crime theory. The book does not refute or accept the theory, merely explaining it in a fact-based manner. Essentially, the theory states that the effects of legalizing abortion reduces crime. There is an inverse correlation is between the availability of abortion and successive crime. According to the theory and how it relates to economics, women’s reproductive independence then became a matter of economic preference; abortion demand was turned on in 1973, when the Roe vs. Wade case happened.
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Wade. Studies have shown that since then, crime has reduced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The basis of the theory associates that post-Roe there was an 11 percent decrease in violent crime, an 8 per cent decrease in property crime, and a 12 per cent decrease in murder across America (Joyce 2004, 1) It seems that by increasing the frequency of abortion the Roe decision can be what explains the significant abrupt, continuing decrease in crime rates. “It prevented the birth of a group of potential criminals who would otherwise have come of age at this time.”*** The argument for the theory shows that those most likely to have had abortions after the Roe decisions were poor, young and single whose unwanted children, if the women did not have abortions, would have been at a high risk of engaging in criminal activities. Statistics show that legal abortion is credited with responsibility for about half of the decline in crime in the United States between 1991 and 1997. Women’s reproductive independence became economic preference and abortion demand
Wade. Studies have shown that since then, crime has reduced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The basis of the theory associates that post-Roe there was an 11 percent decrease in violent crime, an 8 per cent decrease in property crime, and a 12 per cent decrease in murder across America (Joyce 2004, 1) It seems that by increasing the frequency of abortion the Roe decision can be what explains the significant abrupt, continuing decrease in crime rates. “It prevented the birth of a group of potential criminals who would otherwise have come of age at this time.”*** The argument for the theory shows that those most likely to have had abortions after the Roe decisions were poor, young and single whose unwanted children, if the women did not have abortions, would have been at a high risk of engaging in criminal activities. Statistics show that legal abortion is credited with responsibility for about half of the decline in crime in the United States between 1991 and 1997. Women’s reproductive independence became economic preference and abortion demand