Puke alert

[ismnotwasm]

AND racist and sexism alert, If anyone can bring themselves to read the entire study. I don't know why I do this to myself;

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200708/CUL20070809c.html

Abortion Raises Crime Rates, Economist Says
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 09, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - Legalized abortion has led to increased crime, according to a recently published study of people born before and after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The study seems to completely contradict the findings published in the New York Times bestseller, "Freakonomics," and has sparked a heated debate among academics, news reporters and commentators.

"Freakonomics," by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, claimed that legalized abortion reduced crime.

The new study concluded that legalized abortion increased murder rates about 7 percent.

These findings were published in April 2007 in the academic journal Economic Inquiry and were included in the new book, "Freedomnomics," by John R. Lott, published in June. Lott's book is, in many ways, a conservative response to the liberal claims in Levitt's book.

This is one of the most idiotic studies I've ever read.

[iverglas]

1. it's by John Lott

Nope, can't think of anything else to say. ;)

Lucky one of us hangs out in the gun dungeon. Google "john lott" "mary rosh".

Here, I'll start ya off:

http://www.whoismaryrosh.com/

And here's a companion piece to the one you're reading about, linked at that site:

"John Lott blames Affirmative Action in Atlanta Courthouse Shooting"

Sheesh, even Michelle Malkin isn't impressed. And, what I didn't know, it was somebody at Cato who outed him! The right wing's dirty little secret, John Lott is.

But hey, interesting. I guess Lott just isn't one of those menschen who swear their loyalty to the cause of women being able to exercise human rights ...


http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott51.html

Children born after liberalized abortion rules have suffered a series of problems, from problems at school to more crime. The saddest fact is that it is the most vulnerable in society, poor blacks, who have suffered the most from these changes.

John Lott ... now, not just a troll -- a concern troll too.

[ismnotwasm]

2. LOL, "concern troll"

Figures, huh? Still, it grosses me out. I'm glad you're on it, and thanks for the googlefun.

My brother, who is a Libertarian type, hangs out at Lewrockwell and sends me stuff from there from time to time, if it's antiwar.

[BlueIris]

3. Puke indeed. My god. The conclusions of that "study" are as non-sensical

and ridiculous as Zell Miller's claim that legal abortion is the reason we don't have enough people enlisting in our military. And the motives for Lott's statements are about as obvious.