What about Steven Levitt's proposal that legalized abortion is the cause of suddenly vanishing juvenile crime, 20 years after Roe v. Wade? "Data indicates that

What about Steven Levitt's proposal that legalized abortion is the cause of suddenly vanishing juvenile crime, 20 years after Roe v. Wade? "Data indicates that crime in the United States started to decline in 1992. Donohue and Levitt suggest that the absence of unwanted children, following legalization in 1973, led to a reduction in crime 18 years later, starting in 1992 and dropping sharply in 1995. These would have been the peak crime-committing years of the unborn children... states that had abortion legalized earlier should have the earliest reductions in crime. Donohue and Levitt's study indicates that this indeed has happened: Alaska, California, Hawaii, New York, Oregon and Washington experienced steeper drops in crime, and had legalized abortion before Roe v. Wade." [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...