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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Do Abortions Bring Down Crime Rates?

Unborn Baby 2
By Adam David Houk
Edited by: John R. Houk
© March 15, 2011

You know how pro-choice people are always saying that abortions are good for crime rates.  Well I looked up some things and made a chart that would throw that idea out of the water.  I have made a chart of crimes per Population as a percentage and the number of abortions per Population as a percentage.  I also included and offset of 10 years to allow for children to come to an age of crime-worthiness.  The results are profound. Look at the chart.

Year
Population
# Crimes
Percentage per Population
Abortions
Percentage per Population
PPP offset by 10 years
1960
179,323,175
3,384,200
1.89
1961
182,992,000
3,488,000
1.91
1962
185,771,000
3,752,200
2.02
1963
188,483,000
4,109,500
2.18
1964
191,141,000
4,564,600
2.39
1965
193,526,000
4,739,400
2.45
1966
195,576,000
5,223,500
2.67
1967
197,457,000
5,903,400
2.99
1968
199,399,000
6,720,200
3.37
1969
201,385,000
7,410,900
3.68
1970
203,235,298
8,098,000
3.98
1971
206,212,000
8,588,200
4.16
1972
208,230,000
8,248,800
3.96
1973
209,851,000
8,718,100
4.15
744,600
0.35
1974
211,392,000
10,253,400
4.85
898,600
0.43
1975
213,124,000
11,292,400
5.30
1,034,200
0.49
1976
214,659,000
11,349,700
5.29
1,179,300
0.55
1977
216,332,000
10,984,500
5.08
1,316,700
0.61
1978
218,059,000
11,209,000
5.14
1,409,600
0.65
1979
220,099,000
12,249,500
5.57
1,497,700
0.68
1980
225,349,264
13,408,300
5.95
1,553,900
0.69
1981
229,146,000
13,423,800
5.86
1,577,300
0.69
1982
231,534,000
12,974,400
5.60
1,573,900
0.68
1983
233,981,000
12,108,600
5.18
1,575,000
0.67
0.35
1984
236,158,000
11,881,800
5.03
1,577,200
0.67
0.43
1985
238,740,000
12,431,400
5.21
1,588,200
0.67
0.49
1986
240,132,887
13,211,869
5.50
1,574,000
0.66
0.55
1987
242,282,918
13,508,700
5.58
1,559,100
0.64
0.61
1988
245,807,000
13,923,100
5.66
1,590,800
0.65
0.65
1989
248,239,000
14,251,400
5.74
1,566,900
0.63
0.68
1990
248,709,873
14,475,600
5.82
1,608,600
0.65
0.69
1991
252,177,000
14,872,900
5.90
1,556,500
0.62
0.69
1992
255,082,000
14,438,200
5.66
1,528,900
0.60
0.68
1993
257,908,000
14,144,800
5.48
1,495,000
0.58
0.67
1994
260,341,000
13,989,500
5.37
1,423,000
0.55
0.67
1995
262,755,000
13,862,700
5.28
1,359,400
0.52
0.67
1996
265,228,572
13,493,863
5.09
1,360,160
0.51
0.66
1997
267,637,000
13,194,571
4.93
1,335,000
0.50
0.64
1998
270,296,000
12,475,634
4.62
1,319,000
0.49
0.65
1999
272,690,813
11,634,378
4.27
1,314,800
0.48
0.63
2000
281,421,906
11,608,072
4.12
1,312,990
0.47
0.65
2001
285,317,559
11,876,669
4.16
1,291,000
0.45
0.62
2002
287,973,924
11,878,954
4.13
1,269,000
0.44
0.60
2003
290,690,788
11,826,538
4.07
1,250,000
0.43
0.58
2004
293,656,842
11,679,474
3.98
1,222,100
0.42
0.55
2005
296,507,061
11,565,499
3.90
1,206,200
0.41
0.52
2006
299,398,484
11,401,511
3.81
0.51
2007
301,621,157
11,251,828
3.73
0.50
2008
304,374,846
11,160,543
3.67
0.49
2009
307,006,550
10,639,369
3.47
0.48
0.47
0.45
0.44
0.43
0.42
0.41

I took the population of the year and divided it by the parameter and multiplied it by 100.  This gave me a percentage of acts done per person per year (whether it is crime or abortions).

My first point to make is that there is no way anyone could use abortions as a means to lower crime as an excuse to legalize it.  This just is not true.  I made an offset of the abortions rate of 10 years because I believe that children are at an age where they are smart enough to get themselves into a lot of trouble, and is also an age in which parents may start to let children roam around more freely.  Looking at this 10 year offset I noticed that both abortions and crime rates steadily increase from (5.18, .35) percent to (5.90, .69) percent.  Where on this offset both start to decrease never again increase for more than 1 consecutive year.

This therefore makes more of a connection to abortions increasing the rate of crime than decreasing it.  This should be mind boggling.

The only possible reason that I can think of for the opposite connection of the suggested crime rates and abortions is that the suspected people having abortions aren't the ones having them.  This is those that don't really want the children.  While it is true that those that have abortions are mostly among the poorer communities we must remember that abortion clinics target those areas purposefully.

I would like to make a new suggestion.  Those having abortions are people that have an actual interest in their future, not really the ones that don't really care about their children, and it is these people that if they had children that have a tendency to change their attitude of self interest in their future to interest in the children's future and those things that affect their children's future while those that really only care about now, probably don't care enough about the future to even bother changing when they have children and have the children anyway.  Therefore those that might have influenced drops in crime rates are not longer being produced while those who add to crime rates aren't changing their contribution.  As usual no one can make a blanket characterization for all and there will always be exceptions to the rule, but I would like to suggest that this is the majority of abortions.  While it is important to remember this is speculation, I think it is a good one.  I challenge others to come up with a different reason why abortion statistics might be connected with the increase rather than decrease of crime rates.

I will always take the stand that Life starts at conception, and I think it has been a callous disregard for life that we sided with the selfishness of convenience. Giving rights for the choice to destroy life while giving scientists the time to prove scientifically whether it is a life or not rather than side on the caution that it might be a life is very tragic.   For when we find out later that it is a life we will have already murdered tens of millions of unborn babies if not hundreds of millions.  That is genocide.

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