WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - Harriet E. Miers, the Supreme Court nominee, disclosed on Tuesday a 1989 survey in which she supported banning abortion except to protect the life of the pregnant woman.

excerpt from NY TIMES….

We all pretty much expected this, right? This morning, Stephanie read me an excerpt from Freakenomics (thank you, NYC-C) which correlated the increase in abortions amongst poor, teenage women and the drastic decrease in crime twenty or so years later as a direct effect of the absence of those would-be impovershed children that weren’t born [as postulated in Donohue & Levitt's paper, "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime" published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.] Clearly this social gap left behind by providing women with abortions, very often resulting in a higher education thus providing them with better economic potential, is something bad. I mean bad to have less crime because the right to safe, legal abortions continues to be a question. Maybe it’s because most of us just can’t see the cause-effect relationship in human behavior?

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1. Stephanie Says:
   October 20th, 2005 at 10:24 am

   Thank you NY-C! Freakenomics - a fantastic read, I strongly advise everyone to read it, some interteresting insight and analysis. Though I was dissapointed to learn that my once high-end name was labeled in the book as a low-end name in the 90’s, per the ten year change over as the low-income mothers give their babies the names of the high-income kids . Oh well, at least I have enough names that I can just swith them around if I am not feeling that I am snobatorium-worthy.

2. NYC-C Says:
   October 21st, 2005 at 4:28 am

   I own many leatherbound books… and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

3. Rebecca Says:
   October 21st, 2005 at 11:31 am

   You know the difference between an LA apartment and a NY apartment is bookshelves, right? You rock!

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