Comments on: Wm. Bennett, Aborted Black Babies, and Crime Rates

By: Ed That Goes Ping

Ed That Goes Ping — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:19:38 +0000

Well, he’s under attack because of the racist assumptions that underlay his thought experiment, not because he suggested that abortion *as such* would reduce crime.

Which is an assumption shared, as the rather shrill article you linked to points out, by one of the sources cited by Planned Parenthood. I’m not sure that from that you can necessarily assume that Planned Parenthood shares those assumptions.

By: John McAdams

John McAdams — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:12:01 +0000

Planned Parenthood Advocates Abortion to Reduce Crime

And the bizarre thing is that Bennett, who explicitly rejects abortion, is under attack.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:46:03 +0000

Bennet saying this was last night’s “Moment of Zen” on the Daily Show. I would have responded with: “Of course, if you legalized gambling in every state and built legal casinos in every city, that might also reduce crime just a wee smidge. Oh, I’m sorry — you’re a compulsive gambler, aren’t you Bill?”

By: Jim Zoetewey

Jim Zoetewey — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:09:29 +0000

Of course, if you aborted every white baby, your crime rate would also go down because crime rates result from your population. The higher the population of males in a certain age range (18-30, I think), the higher the crime rate.

While the baby boomers were within that age range, there was a surge in the crime rate in the US. When they moved out of it, the crime rate went lower. Police and politicians try to claim this was due to better police techniques. I’m sure that they help, but mostly it’s just demographics.

Not that I think that that’s what Bennett was thinking of.