Thread: Today is the anniversary of Roe V. Wade..
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:14 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I would have to do some digging CF to find stat charts and comparative analysis. Perhaps you too might cite the article you read?

I would think that whatever the stats show, there ought to be, not an increase, not even the same or nearly so, even given that reporting is mandatory now among certain children's service workers like teachers. I would think that if abortion has gained the momentum of one prevailing intended purpose often cited by the pro-choice people, there would be an astonishingly and marked decline in child abuse cases, child neglect cases and children who resort to living delinquent. IF indeed the legalization of abortion has curbed the high number of unwanted children. That purpose often stated, as it was in the OP on the responsibility thread in this same forum.

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I looked for but could not find the article citing a decrease in violent crime.

But here is a little something from factcheck.org.

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By another official measure, crime decreased dramatically since 1973 in both categories. TheBureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey shows that crime rates in 2003 are at the lowest levels recorded since the survey's inception, which coincidentally was the year Roe was decided.According to this annual survey, the number of people saying they were victims of property crime dropped steadily after Roe to, most recently, about 69 percent below 1973 levels. Meanwhile, the number of people who say they were victimized by violent crime has decreased by 53 percent since 1973 . Furthermore, by this measure the rate of violent crime was actually stable between 1973 and 1977, the first several years following Roe .
FactCheck.org: Abortion Distortions
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Actually, the suicide rate for women has dropped by one-third since Roe was decided. According to the Center for Disease Control, the rate was 6.5 per every 100,000 women in 1973, and had fallen to 4.06 by 2001, the most recent year on record.
FactCheck.org: Abortion Distortions

Now how about those juvenile crime figures you were talking about?
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