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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (208441)	12/10/2001 1:57:36 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"There are many factors that reduce murder rates, but the legalization of abortion is not one of them. Of the over six thousand regressions that we estimated here, only one regression implied even a small reduction in murder rate. All the other estimates implied significant if very small to modest increases in murder rates: legalizing abortion would increase murder rates by around 0.5 to 7 percent. Yet, presumably the lower end estimates would not appear to have a significant impact on the overall abortion debate. Donohue and Levitt suggest that abortion reduces annual victimization costs by $30 billion, with most of this coming from reductions in murder. Our results indicate that total victimization costs rose as a result of abortion." papers.ssrn.com * * *