28/07/2013
abortion legalization | abortion rates | crime reductions | Donohue and Levitt Abortion | Feminism | Freakonomics | Legalized Abortion | roe v wade states | Women Rights
Feitosa-Santana
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
“We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion legalization. The 5 states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. States with high abortion rates in the […]