[Beef]

Another interesting fact, and this may be taken as racist, and regarded as highly controversial. Starting in the early 1990's, our nation saw a dramatic and sustained drop in crime that lasts even until today. One school of thought, of which I happen to agree with, is that the reason for this reduction is crime is that, abortions disproportionately affect minority populations. African American women are many times more likely to have one, and all stats show that crime is disproportionately apart of the minority population. In the early 1990's, these first victims of abortion would have been roughly 'crime committing age'. Thus, not in existance, couldn't commit the crime. Will this pattern continue? And is abortion worth it? I hope so, and I hope not.

As sad as it is, this is a valid point. I will try to find the paper that I read on the topic.

As for abortion in general, I think it should only be allowed in certain situations such as the already mentioned health concern (for mother or child) and also in situations of rape. I think that if the option of not having an abortion then you would see more people on birth control and taking more precautions. Knowing that you have to face having a child would make people think twice IMO. Then again, people can just put them up for adoption quickly, and many of the people who choose this route would have probably used drugs during the pregnancy causing the child not to have a full life.

I am really torn on the issue but I know for 100% that if both the baby and mother can go through the whole process and be healthy then they should have to be born (again, minus females who are victims of rape)

Here's the Paper if anyone is interested: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a..._id=174508