For anyone interested, the book Freakonomics had a chapter devoted to studying this as a factor that lead crime to drop from its peak in the early 90s US, approximately 20 years after Roe v Wade.

Kind of a provocative study and you could make a similar case for leaded gasoline and other factors but nevertheless interesting.

Flamebait like that will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The study you’re speaking of (abortion lowering crime rates by preventing unwanted children from terrorizing the streets) remains unproven at best, despite oft being cited as settled research[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...

Thank you. We'll figure it out in 20 years time if no federal law will be instated. The data from pro/contra abortion states can then be correlated with the crime differential in those states. Through that I guess it can then either be shown plausible or implausible. We'll see.

Is this line of thinking materially different from being pro-death penalty?

It is if you don't consider a fetus to be a person.

Don't worry, we will have full pre-crime surveillance by then and you won't be able even think about farting without it being noted.

Looks at racial break-down of abortions. Rereads parent comment.

The problem is, in a word, poverty.

I believe there have been social studies showing the positive impact to crime by increasing access to abortion. I don’t have citations or the time to look them up now, but I am pretty sure it is referenced in Freakonomics and possibly one of Gladwell’s books.

There's no way to tell for sure, because it's such a broad statistic. Other people have opined that the removal of lead gasoline was also a reason of the drop in crime rates. No one really knows what is causing it.

Abortion rights have never been about liquidating future criminals. A correlation might exist, but the dissenting justices were not considering it.

Bad generalization and prejudice right there. While whether someone is brought up in an environment that encourages care absolutely influences the choices people make down the road, whether the person in question was "wanted" does not matter. I can't exactly back that up with some solid data but i think that many people know someone who is far from being an "unwanted" person but still made some bad choices in life.