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'''Steven Levitt''' is a [[liberal]] economist and co-author of [[Freakonomics]], a book falsely claiming legalized [[abortion]] contributed to a drop in the crime rate in the 1990s (a phenomenon accurately attributed to [[conservative]] social policies). Levitt's theory has been compared to [[Eugenics]]. | '''Steven Levitt''' is a [[liberal]] economist and co-author of [[Freakonomics]], a book falsely claiming legalized [[abortion]] contributed to a drop in the crime rate in the 1990s (a phenomenon accurately attributed to [[conservative]] social policies). Levitt's theory has been compared to [[Eugenics]]. | ||
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Revision as of 19:00, April 19, 2010
Steven Levitt is a liberal economist and co-author of Freakonomics, a book falsely claiming legalized abortion contributed to a drop in the crime rate in the 1990s (a phenomenon accurately attributed to conservative social policies). Levitt's theory has been compared to Eugenics.
Levitt is correct in the association of abortion and reduced crime in that by legalizing the murder of millions of babies it is assured that those murders will no longer be classified as "crimes."