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Isn't the real lesson for policymakers get ready to provide the sort of social services that these children are going to require so as to rescue them or avert a life that might lead to crime? >> yeah. well, i think there are two things. one is that if you're going to remove the ability for abortion and you're concerned about the impact on crime over the next 20 years or so, you certainly want to reduce unwanted pregnancies through sex education, better contraception. and if those children are born into these more adverse life outcomes, i do think it's incumbent upon the government to try to ta...

The impact on crime? because there's data that suggests more abortion equals less crime. you remember the 2005 best seller freakonomics it connected the dots from a lower crime rate to the legalization of abortion based on a study that he had done with his fellow economist john donahue who will join me in just a moment. from 1991 until 2001, violent crime in the u.s. fell more than 30%, decline not seen since the end of prohibition. and in may of 2001, after crunching the data they published a study in the quarterly journal of economics. the impact of legalized abortion on crime. they wrote th...