Re:Very Nice Article (Score 1)

Stephen Levitt, in his recent book "Freakonomics" (www.freakonomics.com) makes a convincing argument that the drop in crime rates in the US over the last decade has very little to do with all the various reasons often bandied about. Rather, he posits that the Roe vs. Wade decision (giving women a limited right to abortion in the US) caused a whole generation of the people that were most likely to become criminals not to be born. This is obviously a pretty politically/emotionally charged conclusion, but Levitt does a good job cutting through the emotion and looking directly at the statistics. The rest of the book is interesting as well . . . I recommend it.