Well, if you accept as a given (for the sake of argument) that permitting rampant abortion tangibly reduces crime, then there are different conclusions that you

Well, if you accept as a given (for the sake of argument) that permitting rampant abortion tangibly reduces crime, then there are different conclusions that you can draw. For example, if you believe that very few people are "born bad" (which I don't believe is a challenging assertion... Psychopathy exists and all that, but even that can be steered into productive ends), then incarcerations are a failure of the system to steer those with troubled or unwanted beginnings into productive lives regardless. The anti-abortion people, instead of fighting abortion, should be pushing for better support of young people who grew up in troubled or unwanted environments. Then and only then, once that is in place, can the restriction of abortion commence IMHO without resulting in more societal harm. Unfortunately, the same people pushing to ban abortion are the people who would stand in the way of social supports like this, trying to have their cake and eat it too, because it costs money. Or perhaps because they, uncharacteristically unempathetically and dehumanizingly, see people as falling into only 2 camps, "hardworking Americans" and "criminals" Lastly, both incarceration and child rehabilitation should be judged based on recidivism, and new ideas should be attempted if that number is inadequate, and at least in the US, they're not.