Does Abortion lower crime rates in the long-run?

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I imagine killing every black person would make the crime rate drop a lot.

I think all of those murders would raise the crime rate.

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It depends on the abortion in question.

In some cases, those who are aborted may well have gone on to become criminals, but some would have gone on to become upstanding individuals, police officers, etc. It's impossible to say for sure, obviously.

Unwanted children are certainly more likely to go on to become criminals. That much is true. However, if the child had gone on to be adopted instead, that changes the equation.

Adopted children still do worse than those with their biological parents. That's on average of course, and doesn't mean that adoption is bad in certain cases.

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I think quite a lot of them would have turned out poorly. Having a mother whoreally didn't want to have you, but was forced to because of a fascist law,  is a bad thing.

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I think quite a lot of them would have turned out poorly. Having a mother whoreally didn't want to have you, but was forced to because of a fascist law,  is a bad thing.

Fern,

Though you may be right many many great people have come from so called "broken" homes.

Sarcastic response:
Don't worry, we'll still have some broken homes.

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The economic benefit to society of abortion in reducing crime may be up to $30 billion annually.

And the thousands of those aborted who didn't fall into a life of crime would certainly produce more than $30b annually through their labor.

You have to subtract that from their costs to society, and the costs of overpopulation.