Freakonomics pg 120-150

This chapter asks "Where have all the criminal's go?". The crime rate has significantly dropped since the nineties, where it was at its highest in years. Dubner and Levitt talk about the romanian abortion policy and how it so drastically changed from a form of birth control, to a forbidden practice, and was strictly and even bizarrely banned. He further goes into abortion in the united states and the role it may have had on crime rates in the nineties and present day. He talks about how bad the crime rate was then, and how good it is now. Rowe V. Wade made abortion legal, and by 15 years later the crime rate had dropped significantly. He proposes that legalizing abortion may have contributed to less crime in the U.S. by eliminating children who would have most likely grown up in poverty or under bad circumstances. Crime is at it's higest among teenagers, and with less teenagers born into bad circumstances, their was less crime.

This chapter was very interesting, I guess weather you are pro life or pro choice, there is no denying the fact that the crime rate has dropped since abortion was legalized. Dubner and Levitt talk about this issue in the intro to the book as well, I was glad to read it more elaborated on.