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To: TigerPaw who wrote (208429)	12/10/2001 1:09:19 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Recently, two researchers made the atrocious claim that the abortion caused much of the large drop in crime that our nation enjoyed during the 1990s. They theorized that many of the babies killed by abortion during the early 1970s would have been born to mothers who were poor, young, single, or minorities; these children would have been unwanted or otherwise raised in difficult home environments and would have been likelier than children not aborted to be criminals. This May, however, Yale law professor John Lott and Australian economist John Whitley released a paper that powerfully show why the first study is wrong. These researchers discuss numerous problems with the data and the assumptions behind the first study. After correcting for these problems, Lott and Whitley show that abortion is actually associated with more, not less crime, and with a higher murder rate in particular. Prepare yourself to debate the link between abortion and crime by downloading the Lott and Whitley paper from the Social Science Research Network at papers.ssrn.com. This working paper is entitled "Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births" by John R. Lott, Jr. and John Whitley.

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