>>>>Woudn't the same thing happen if all the white babies were aborted?
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>>>Of course. I think that was his point whole point. But Americans are so racially charge that they take these type of thing too personally... my opinion of course.
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>>>I didn't hear the context of his conversation, but I'm sure he and his guest were talking about crime, particularly black-on-black crime and how disproportionate inmates are African Amercians.
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>>>The race doesn't matter, it's the concept, a very bad concept.
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>>Sam,
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>>I *think* that he was discussing a recent book which postulated (part of it did) that the overall crime rate went down SINCE ABORTION WAS LEGALIZED because this brought less unwanted kids into the world and unwanted kids were more likely to become criminals.
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>Interesting.
>Abort unwanted babies to reduce crime... interesting idea.
>For some reason that sounds wrong tho.

And that's exactly what Bennet said. But he used better describing words: "That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do ...

He was discussing with a caller a finding of the authors of Freakonomics that since legalization of abortion esp. single, black women have performed abortion. Of course, these women did not perform abortion to prevent crime (that's what you make of it), but to prevent poverty and other kind of personal trouble.