Show Of Hands asked: 10/09/2011
In "Freakonomics," the authors argue that the primary cause of reduced crime rates in the 90's was the legalization of abortion 20 years earlier, i.e. lots of unwanted babies, unless aborted, grow to become criminals. Agree?
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