Hundreds protest in San Luis Obispo over Supreme Court abortion opinion

During his inaugural address in 1993, Bill Clinton said, “Let us roll up our sleeves to roll back this awful tide of violence and reduce crime in our country.” Violent crime had escalated throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s. Clinton, with the help of Joe Biden, passed a historic crime bill (critics have pummeled the law in recent years) in 1993 to attempt to address the issue.

However, crime miraculously began to fall all around the country in the early 90’s. In fact, in New York City in 1990 there were 2,200 homicides. That figure has fallen precipitously since, with the number hovering around 300 for several years. In 2021 it rose to 485, still well below the 1990 figure.

What happened? No, it wasn’t Clinton’s and Bien’s ill conceived crime bill that suddenly stopped crooks in their tracks. Instead, researchers have shown the correlation between the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973 to the drop in crime some 20 years later. Violent crime is usually perpetrated by young men who had come from poverty or dysfunctional childhoods.

By the 1990’s the young men who might have been anti-social were gone. Tens of thousands of women who didn’t want to have babies simply didn’t have them and the nation did not have a multitude of unwanted miscreants who would turn to crime.

In other words, be careful what you wish for.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisited/