Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1

I just read a book "freakonomics", http://www.freakonomics.com There was something interesting in the book about crime. People predicted that by now the priosns would be full of prisoners. But suddenly the crime didn't rise, but the crime rates went lower than ever before. People blame it on the war on drugs, higher sentences, better economy, more policeman. But he found out that the there was less crime because of abortion.

Cause mothers who didn't want children has an alternative now. Instead of having a child they couldn't take care of or where unwanted didn't get born. Strange, how many baby's that didn't get born would have become criminals because they wouldn't have a good future?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legaliz...d_crime_effect