The Effect of Abortion on Crime Rates

There's also this theory. that when abortion became legal, it might have resulted in crime rates going down like 20 years later because a lot of unwanted kids weren't born basically. This is why we need a robust immigrant population and people coming into our country because the people here are too traumatized by the economy to birth our own live young or like sad pandas. What's actually interesting is that it's not all that clear that the number of abortions rose significantly after abortion became legal. It may be an increased access to people who were younger and poorer. And so it probably exerts some effect, but we don't totally know.