In America, the precipitous decline in crime rates coincided with legal access to abortion. Count forward 20 years from now, American crime rates will be going up, and will be debated endlessly. Except it won't be mysterious, and it won't be evenly distributed. States that have retained access to abortion will be the perfect control groups, but ignored, for all of the studies that will be created by social scientists to understand the criminal trends. Btw - Drug addicts, arguably, are adapting to society; for many, society is the cause, not the cure.
In America, the precipitous decline in crime rates coincided with legal access to abortion. Count forward 20 years from now, American crime rates will be going up, and will be debated endlessly. Except it won't be mysterious, and it won't be evenly distributed. States that have retained access to abortion will be the perfect control groups, but ignored, for all of the studies that will be created by social scientists to understand the criminal trends. Btw - Drug addicts, arguably, are adapting to society; for many, society is the cause, not the cure.