2007-11-22 12:56:05 · 14 answers · asked by AB17 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Supposedly since it's low-income people that are more likely to have abortions and commit crimes.
2007-11-22 13:02:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
2 sides to this. Having an abortion is a crime because you are murdering somebody. But then it probably does lower it. Statistically the lower class are more likely to have an abortion, and statistically the lower class create more crime and poverty. So you pick. Im personally against abortion in most cases (unless the woman is raped, or the baby is going to have some sort of horrible disease). I dont really have a definitive answer for this question, because sure its murder, but the chances of the baby growing up to commit a crime is usually pretty high, in most cases. Its not the babiies fault, its just the environment they will most likely be raised in.
2007-11-22 13:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by jsda_man 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. Abortion is wrong but it doesn't lower crime. I think when most people has an abortion they feel so worthless and all sorts of bad feelings that they are more likely to do things they wouldn't have done before.
2007-11-22 20:48:56 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ gina ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no substantiated correlation between the number of abortions in a given sample of the population and the rates of crime and poverty within that sample.
William Bennett, former education secretary under Reagan and drug "czar" under Bush I, once quipped about how abortions of black babies could lower crime rates after a caller to a radio show referenced a dubious "Freakonomics" argument.
2007-11-22 13:40:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hell No! How can murdering your own child lower crime? Oh I forgot, in this country what's morally wrong doesn't count. If the law says it's okay then it's not really a crime. How come we can keep moving forward technically so fast and continue to go backwards morally?
2007-11-22 13:11:07 · answer #5 · answered by jim h 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Abortion IS crime and poverty!
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ~Mother Teresa
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" ~United States Declaration of Independence
2007-11-22 13:26:36 · answer #6 · answered by twincrier 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well if you follow the logic that taxes creates crime and poverty by reducing wages and disposable money, as the right-wingers claim, then it would only make logical sense that a ban on something that requires more laws, more enforcement, and more costs to enforce, would create crime and poverty by creating more taxes to pay for the enforcement.
40 billion a year to wage war on drugs, how much are you willing to pay to do it on abortion?
2007-11-22 13:02:14 · answer #7 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
No one is born bad. Every child poor or rich has the potential to be someone great one day. All great men were born with nothing but they died with everything.
2007-11-22 13:03:35 · answer #8 · answered by Adeptus Astartes 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
well... Steven Levit makes the argument, using facts, in Freakonomics....
he also talks about some reasons it may not be exactly true, but the facts he presents seem to point in that direction...
even if it isn't a very "pleasant" thought...
2007-11-22 13:18:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
It probably lowers child abuse and neglect.
2007-11-22 13:07:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋