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From: epicure	3/12/2007 10:45:38 AM
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I saw someone say this on another thread "Big-city murders way up since ’04 Young criminals come on line at about age 17. That means that more violence prone kids were born, beginng about 1988. nrlc.org Ronald Reagan's anti-abortion proposals led to many more unwanted children who were subsequently beaten, raped, neglected, and turned to a life of drugs and crime." I found it interesting, so I looked up the stats- and it DOES look like pregnancy rate decinles is falling behind abortion declines: "It looks like the teen pregnancy rate has not declined nearly as much as the abortion rate- so I bet you are right. In Freakonomics an interesting argument was made about the impact abortion had on crime rates- I hadn't thought about it before I read that, but it made a lot of sense. guttmacher.org;

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