Abortion in Canada

Wade was indeed the event that tipped the crime scale. There are even more correlations, positive and negative, that shore up the abortion-crime link. In states with high abortion rates, the entire decline in crime was among the post-Roe cohort as opposed to older criminals. Also, studies of Australia and Canada have since established a similar link between legalized abortion and crime. And the post-Roe cohort was not only missing thousands of young male criminals but also thousands of single, teenage mothersБЂ”for many of the aborted baby girls would have been the children most likely to replicate their own mothersБЂ™ tendencies. To discover that abortion was one of the greatest crime-lowering factors in American history is, needless to say, jarring. It feels less Darwinian than Swiftian; it calls to mind a long ago dart attributed to G. K. Chesterton: when there arenБЂ™t enough hats to go around, the problem isnБЂ™t solved by lopping off some heads. The crime drop was, in the language of economists, an БЂњunintended benefitБЂ«of legalized abortion ...»