The Law of Abortion Effect on Crime Debate

I can't prove that there isn't a freakinomics effect. It's just pretty modest. The crack wars were gigantic in their effects on crime, especially the best measured crime of murder. Maybe there's some effect today. I haven't gone back to look. We had this big natural experiment or not exactly natural experiment of legalizing abortion. And it could well be that it that era 50 years ago that legalizing abortion kind of cut down on the number of working class kids being born and didn't have any effect on underclass children being born. That's one possibility. But it was an interesting debate we debated in Slate.com in 1999,. Although since then they've taken our names off