Freakonomics discusses[1]
- the 160 million girls who were aborted in Asian countries
- Levitt rehashes his abortion reduces crime theory. Basically when he was researching there were one million abortions and three million births. One out of four births being aborted since Roe v Wade explains to him why crime plummeted in the early 90's when these kids would have been teenagers. Today there is about one million abortions, but there are about four million births.[2] If Levitt is right, as the abortion rate plummets crime should increase. Today, the abortion rate is not 25%, but 19.6%. There are 4,247,694 and 1.21 million abortions. However these extra children may not be the (unwanted by their mothers) children that Levitt thinks would commit crimes. If Levitt is right about unwanted children tending to be aborted, perhaps crime will not increase.
- Dubner also discusses the new blood test for pregnant women that will replace the amniocentesis. More women will be able to find out about their down syndrome child sooner and with out threat of miscarriage. Dubner worries that this might lead to more abortions.
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