Q: Where Have All The Criminals Gone? A: The Clinic Trash Can.

For some reason, I just could not get into this chapter, Where Have All The Criminals Gone? which explains such the long delay in my blogging. I don't know, maybe it was because I'm not feeling well...um...no...uh it is definitely because the author for some reason decided to change lanes from his typical, laid back, easy to listen to self, into someone extremely technical, who wanted to throw a whole bunch of numbers and statistics at me that I could not comprehend. Okay so the comprehension wasn't that bad, but I was not used to this coming from him, so it was hard to stay focused on what he was trying to tell me. I mean one minute he was talking about increase number of police on the street, and a whole bunch of figures, then he jumped to good policing strategies, then gave me more numbers to think about, and then tougher gun control, I mean he was just all over the place with this one, and all the numbers he was filling my head up with was not making it any easier to follow him.

Fortunately for me, well him, I was able to stay attentive long enough to catch the beginnings and endings of what he was saying, to get the gist of what the chapter was about, and the purpose of it all. Abortion (in theory) had a significant impact on the rate at which the number of crimes had fallen in the United States. He said, when abortion was made legal after Roe. v Wade, the women who did not want children were able to receive abortions therefore not bringing a child into the world where they would be forced to grow up miserable due to having to live with a mother who resented them. In turn, no child had to grow up unwanted, poor, and struggling, which are the main ingredients for future criminals, which is why crime fell. With him, on this, I concur. Look at Romania, when Nicolae Ceausescu banned abortion to increase the population of Romania. Women were forced to have children that they did not want, and the children grew up living miserable, criminal lives. These children who were born after the ban, hated Ceausescu, and when Ceausescu met his violent death, a great part of it was because of the youth who wanted him dead, a great number or whom, were it not for his abortion ban, would never have been born at all.

[To go off topic a little bit, I just want to say that I was completely shocked about the Menstrual Police and the "celibacy tax"! The first thing that came to mind when I read that was WOW, what an invasion of privacy.]

But back to abortion = dropping crime rates, I think it's mere coincidence that when abortion was legalized, crime fell. I think with a little less numbers in the other parts of the chapter and more statistics about abortion and how it helped crime to fall would have made this theory a lot more concrete.

All in all, the read was a little dry, but he did an excellent job of tying the beginnings and ends of the chapter together. I just have one question though. He said that abortion [again in theory] helped crime to fall significantly, but did it really, because isn't ABORTION NOT A CRIME IN ITSELF??? [I mean it's just a question.]