Friday, September 30, 2005

1567 Bill Bennett's comments on abortion

Bill Bennett on his radio show tried to refute an article in a book (Freakonomics) that says abortions would reduce crime, and he gets strung up by the liberals who cooked up this scheme? Really! Liberals have been saying for years that killing the unborn will "save" children from poverty and a terrible life (and help our taxes). They've also published this crime theory and blacks in scholarly journals.

"Fertility declines for black women are three times greater than for whites (12 percent compared to 4 percent). Given that homicide rates of black youths are roughly nine times higher than those of white youths, racial differences in the fertility effects of abortion are likely to translate into greater homicide reductions." Quarterly Journal of Economics "The impact of legalized abortion on crime" by John Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt. (2001) James Taranto suggests that what really made them mad was his suggesting it was immoral.

Where was the outrage when academics proposed it? Where was Nancy Pelosi then? That woman's hypocrisy really gravels me for some reason. She and Feinstein are so whiny. How do you Californians stand it?

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