JoB
I don’t think i care one way or another…
but if you use common sense… if women who historically had very limited opportunity to get abortions, women in the lowest socioeconomic class.. suddenly had the option not to have a child they couldn’t responsibly raise…
And if birth rates among single poor women did go down…
that children they didn’t have would not be raised by a single mother in poverty in substandard educational systems without the kinds of after school and nutrition programs available to more affluent children and would not be subject to the temptations of gang life and crime…
it seems to me, if there are fewer of those children, the crime rates would go down…
so it is probably not unreasonable to assume that if there is a strong correlation between the availability of abortion and lowering of subsequent crime rates that stands up when applied to differing geographical areas that instituted availability at differing times..
that it is likely a factor in the reduction of crime rates.
You can reject that argument if you want to, but it is as reasonable as the many other explanations….
including the NRA’s assumption that crime rates go down where gun laws are more lax.