Abortion Rights Support Slipping...

[minionofmidas]

Abortion should be kept legal. It dramatically reduces crime rates in the future.

That's Bollocks.

Not surprised, you're Irish.

And no it isn't. It's fact.

Would you mind proving this hate filled "fact" please?

And remember kids, Correlation is not Causation.

ns cause all crime. Duh.

Er, no. That's not the argument. "Unwanted children cause crime" is the argument. There is, of course, a logical jump between "commit" and "cause" that the argument doesn't address, and it uses the police/tabloid press definition rather than the law code definition of crime (as any crime count based on police statistics will, given the <1% detection rate of most white collar crimes).

[minionofmidas]

On a related note:

Incidence of certain crimes (coming to police notice) in Frankfurt, 1721-5, 1741-5, 1761-5, 1781-5, 1801-5. Not sure why the author of the study chose those particular years.

Murder and manslaughter - 39 (17 of them in 1741-5.)
Infanticide - 29 (not included above)
Abandonment of infants (including ones not found until after their death) - 36
Abortion (note the bit about this being police statistics) - 4.
Ah, the good ole days before legal abortion and contraception.

Oh, and btw: Suicide - 36. Getting noticeably more common throughout the century. Nowadays, of course, Germany's suicide rate is ten times the homicide rate.

[minionofmidas]

I disagree with Roe V. Wade. I believe there should be restrictions on abortion. However, I do not believe it should be outlawed all together.

That's agreeing with Roe V. Wade. People always get that confused. The case you want is Doe V. Bolton.