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Abortion rates in the United States have been falling steadily for decades, long before restrictive statutes began to make the procedure difficult to obtain in some areas.
and liberals thought it smacked of eugenics. they cited other variables that authors neglected made the abortion effect on crime disappear. back in 2001, levitt and donahue project what had the numbers might look like after 20 years if their thesis held. in 2020 they followed up by looking what had transpired and published a new piece. impact of legalized abortion on crime over the last two decades. looking at the data from 1997 to 2014 they found a similar pattern in states with the highest abortion rates, crime rates had fallen 60% more than in the states that had the lowest abortion rates. look, it s a discomfortable argument, no matter where you stand on abortion, it turns unhappy, private event into a positive public outcome, but even given all that now with the prospect of half the states readying to effectively ban abortion, what does this study
themselves pro-life and yet put women in this predicament. reporter: so what you hear, kathleen saying there is really echoed on the steps of the supreme court. she is saying women are at risk. women s lives will not be safer if they are not able to exact abortion rates. women overwhelmingly live over the poverty line and women of color. i want to explain what it means that this clinic, which would be forced to shut down if roe v. wade was overturned. if you were in houston, texas, you would have to drive 12 hours to colorado, in shreveport to illinois possibly for 11 hours, in atlanta, georgia, you d have to go to maryland for ten hours, biloxi, mississippi, you have to drive ten hours. when i was asking people on the ground, what are they looking to washington for? they tell me they have little faith washington will change this situation. they are saying they are trying