DougShrapnel
08-30-2005, 08:13 AM
I was reading the book Freakonomics and I found something interesting. Based on the statistics gathered, the authors where able to determine that the main cause of the massive and continued drop in crime rates in 1993 was abortion. I found it interesting for several reasons.
The competency of our leadership. Of all the reasons sited for the drop in crime (strong economy, gun control laws, policing strategies, and others) which all seemed reasonable, have little effect on crime reduction. It seems as if experts have little idea of what they are talking about. Are we being lead astray?
Abortion as a crime prevention technique? To talk of abortion as a crime prevention technique may disguist some people. So a point I'd like to make is, If abortion is ever re-illegalized, we must be sure to expand our welfare system, to ensure our safety and the safety of the children we save. An illegal abortion costed about 500 and well off people where able to afford them. And I'm sure the rich broke the law a dispropotional amount of the time versus the poor. Two factors that lead to children becoming criminals are living in poverty and being born to a single parent. So the children that are born thru anti-abortion laws have a much greater chance of becoming criminals that those are killed illegaly.
When moral codes no longer benefit society, do they need to be replaced? When the bible was writen until into the recent past, a child gained a family finiancily (my numbers aren't correct) Let just say you could put your child to work and he/she was worth (adj for inflation) 20k a year. Whereas, in todays world, a child is a 30k a year debt for 18yrs. So go ahead and eat some ham.
I write this in this forum because of the aurthors proposed worth of a fetus vs newborn was 100 fetuses = 1 newborn. There are roughly 1.5 million abortions in the US each year. Or equavilate to 15,000 lost lifes. Which is far more then the number of homicides eliminated each year due to the legalization of abortion. Besides the obvious answers of 1:1 or no ammount of fetuses is worth 1 newborn what other numbers might make more sense?
The author then goes on to say that when a government gives a woman the opportunity to make her own decisions, she generally does a good job of figuring out if she is in a position to raise the baby well.
Why do we let goverment make any choices for us? We hired them to protect our freedom, not to enslave us. What other choices is goverment making on our behalf immorally and without cause? Why in a country that holds separtion of church and state, does goverment demand specific religious moral values and teaching higher than scientific explaintion? Is our goverment using its army to attack and murder people from other nations and religions, instead of protecting us.
The competency of our leadership. Of all the reasons sited for the drop in crime (strong economy, gun control laws, policing strategies, and others) which all seemed reasonable, have little effect on crime reduction. It seems as if experts have little idea of what they are talking about. Are we being lead astray?
Abortion as a crime prevention technique? To talk of abortion as a crime prevention technique may disguist some people. So a point I'd like to make is, If abortion is ever re-illegalized, we must be sure to expand our welfare system, to ensure our safety and the safety of the children we save. An illegal abortion costed about 500 and well off people where able to afford them. And I'm sure the rich broke the law a dispropotional amount of the time versus the poor. Two factors that lead to children becoming criminals are living in poverty and being born to a single parent. So the children that are born thru anti-abortion laws have a much greater chance of becoming criminals that those are killed illegaly.
When moral codes no longer benefit society, do they need to be replaced? When the bible was writen until into the recent past, a child gained a family finiancily (my numbers aren't correct) Let just say you could put your child to work and he/she was worth (adj for inflation) 20k a year. Whereas, in todays world, a child is a 30k a year debt for 18yrs. So go ahead and eat some ham.
I write this in this forum because of the aurthors proposed worth of a fetus vs newborn was 100 fetuses = 1 newborn. There are roughly 1.5 million abortions in the US each year. Or equavilate to 15,000 lost lifes. Which is far more then the number of homicides eliminated each year due to the legalization of abortion. Besides the obvious answers of 1:1 or no ammount of fetuses is worth 1 newborn what other numbers might make more sense?
The author then goes on to say that when a government gives a woman the opportunity to make her own decisions, she generally does a good job of figuring out if she is in a position to raise the baby well.
Why do we let goverment make any choices for us? We hired them to protect our freedom, not to enslave us. What other choices is goverment making on our behalf immorally and without cause? Why in a country that holds separtion of church and state, does goverment demand specific religious moral values and teaching higher than scientific explaintion? Is our goverment using its army to attack and murder people from other nations and religions, instead of protecting us.