Chapter 4 – Abortion and Crime
I have to admit I had much trouble making the abortion crime connection. Maybe it is my ultra conservative Chastain background, or my raw cynicism for written work that I agenda free, but I just have trouble with this. As a researcher, I am well aware of mediating variables, regression to the mean, the maturity effect and all these influences that makes it improbable, if not impossible to make the bold cause and effect relationship between abortion and crime rate.
I do agree that unwanted children end up in the streets and eventually fall to the criminal culture that consumes their environment. However, it has been proven that getting a second and third abortion is very high risk of occurrence amount teenaged mothers. So are we saying that as a society we have a make a moral decision between high crime and abortion restrictions? On one hand we seem to be saying that if abortion is well regulated, has simple applications and is universally available, we would be eradiating a large proportion of the future criminals that would terrorize our homes. According to the study, this direct cause effect relationship could easily be the new crime prevention plan of the future; can anyone say Robocop (Stalone) or the Minority report (Cruse) ?
I what I am saying is that even if this is true, the application are just too frightening for it to do any large social good. It just reeks of ethnic cleansing, racial segregation and class consciousness to me. I guess it would be kind of like Bosnia, Darfur, and Nuremburg. I mean, if the correlation showed that it was the extra police that curbed the crime, can u imagine how hard it would be to find a place to pee in public without running into a cop?
The interesting thing about statistics is that it proved that it was actually the corruption campaign against dirty cops that cleaned up New York, and not locking up all the prostitutes and leaning on the gangsters. Interesting finding, do you think the resulting effect will be a full scale investigation of all police precincts and leaving a strong monitoring system in place to suppress this kind of situations? Oh, wait, weren’t bunch of cops recently arrested and charge in NYC fot this same kind of behavior?? And what about Rodney King? Was that different because it was race and no corruption? Is that a different matrix? Imagine a society who knows what the problem is but can address it because of the potential damage to citizen’s trust in the law enforcement system? Is this not a foundation for cover-ups and larger corruption? Well, trust me when I say that no one will get elected and stay in office by attacking the boys in blue all across America. I guess that means our easier option is clearly abortion……too bad for the Republicans.
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I agree, it is a pretty big assumption to correlate abortions with less crimes, but to me there is some truth. If you give the option to people to abort unplanned pregnancies, which could result in a child not being raised properly, then I believe that it should be there right to choose that option. But that doesn't mean that every child who grows up in a broken home is going to end up a criminal, but there will be a much higher chance because of many different variables. Just saying that abortions are the reason for less crime is not a complete answer, but a major association that contributes to it. I also agree that corruption in law enforcement is a huge problem and I believe it is derived from the huge amount of power and protection that is given to the police, which allows them to easily turn power hungry. This is a point that I could go on about for a long time, but it all boils down to police officers becoming way to obsessed with there power, and it being very easy for them to accomplish corrupt acts.
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