Legalizing Abortion Decreases the Crime Rate

I. Common Sense in Theory My opponent seems to keep failing to realize that having an abortion is a lot cheaper than having a baby and raising it for 18 years. I mean an abortion is so much cheaper. Not to mention, think of it this way: If abortion is prohibited, 0 babies will be aborted, while if abortion was legalized, X babies would be aborted. So, abortion legalization will mean aborted babies. My opponent misunderstood my point here. When I said that '50 percent are more likely to live in poverty', that means as a comparison of the general population, not the other 50 won't live in poverty. And poor does not mean in poverty. Poverty is defined as less than $10600 (Guttmacher). Also, I didn't say all poor people are criminals, I just said they are more likely to. This is relevant because if abortion is done more by the largest crime rate groups, it will have a visible effect. My opponent is correct is saying that crime data is not complete, but arrest data is pretty good at being extrapolated to determine which age group is committing the crime. This is a very accurate method, and thus the methods they used are very reliable. II. End I apologize, but I am scraped for time, so I will have to cut some arguments short. 1) Low income means no abortions "Aside from poverty, little changed in the profile of women obtaining abortions between 2000 and 2008. A broad cross section of U. S. women have abortions: Fifty-eight percent of abortion patients in 2008 were in their 20s; 45% were never-married and not living with a partner; 61% were already mothers; 42% were living below the federal poverty line; 36% were white; 59% had at least some college education; and 73% were religiously affiliated. But certain groups of women those who were in their 20s, cohabiting, black or poor were overrepresented among abortion patients. "(Guttmacher) Poor people do use abortions. My opponent again fails to realize that abortions are cheaper. Just $500 or the full price of a child. You are saving thousands by abortions. 2) Prosperous Area does not mean Crime Rate Drop My opponent is correct in saying that higher-income states have less crime, but they won't have more significant crime drops because of that. Also, the high abortion states have huge swaths of people in extreme poverty. This will create an abortion boom. "In contrast, the crime trends in high and low abortion states were similar over a period from 1973-85. "(Donahue) So the levels were alike, thus the data is accurate. Again, ". .. the cumulative decrease in crime between 1982–1997 for early-legalizing states compared with the rest of the nation is 16.2 percent greater for murder, 30.4 percent greater for violent crime, and 35.3 percent greater for property crime. "[2] Is there any real proof? Yes. "An increase in the effective abortion rate of 100 per 1000 live births (the mean effective abortion rate in 1997 for violent crime is 180 with a standard deviation of 96 across states) is associated with a reduc- tion of 12 percent in murder, 13 percent in violent crime, and 9 percent in property crime. "[2] "When we compare arrest rates of people born in the same state, just before and just after abortion legalization, we once again see the identical pattern of lower arrest rates for those born after legalization than before. "[4] You haven't refuted any of my arguments.