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""Does Abortion Prevent Crime?" Steven D. Levitt's opening statement to Steve Sailer in 1999 "Slate" debate"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The U.S. black community (ghetto underclass) has perhaps the highest abortion rate in the USA.

About 50% of babies aborted in the USA are black. In other regions, it's 70% that are aborted are black.

On the other hand, the "talented tenth" blacks have the lowest fertility rates and are going extinct.

4/26/14, 4:06 PM

Blogger manton said...

Slate deleted the names because they didn't want to admit that they ever actually published you, but they also didn't want to take the whole exchange down--too "censory." So the only solution they could come up with was to delete your name, and if they did that, then they had to delete both to make it look consistent--like the way Haldir had to blindfold Legolas as well as Gimli on the approach to Lorien.

I apologize if that is screamingly obvious to everyone. Clearly, Steve knows that's the reason, but for whatever reason he has chosen not to call out Slate for its cowardly revisionism, even though there is zero chance they will ever publish him again.

4/26/14, 4:06 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Perhaps, but one shouldn't always ascribe to malign intent what can also be explained by not-just-getting-around-to-it.

4/26/14, 4:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I used to believe in that maxim too, but a couple.years of reading your blog cured me of that naivete.

4/26/14, 9:19 PM

Blogger Whiskey said...

Steve, I think you and Levitt are both wrong. Crime did not go down at all. The stats were simply manipulated, like say, Washington Mutual loan documentation.

Occam's Razor and all.

4/26/14, 10:13 PM

Anonymous Luke said...

Classic name for an abortion clinic sited in an inner city location:
"Crimestoppers". ;)

4/26/14, 11:26 PM

Anonymous David said...

I have a problem with comparing the violent crime rates of 14-17 year-olds and 25-34 year-olds here. Doesn't the latter age group tend to be less violent than the former anyway, abortion or no abortion? This ought to be checked on, since it seems intuitively obvious that the blood of a 34 year old youth would be cooler on average than that of a 17 year old youth.

I like your "eucultural" point about the result of a lack of respect for human life. It does seem a problematic policy to go about reducing violence by killing millions.

4/27/14, 12:47 PM

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