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Legalized abortion responsible for decline in crime rate

Summary:

Canadian abortion rights activist Dr. Henry Morgentaler was recently awarded an honourary doctorate by the University of Western Ontario. While anti-choice activists in the U.S. are bolstering their efforts to have a woman’s right to choose repealed, I think the right to reproductive choices will continue to be protected here, in Canada.

There are always protesters against pro-choice activists, and organizations like Planned Parenthood, but even the right-wing party, the Conservative Party of Canada, recently took the abortion issue off the agenda.

This story, while concentrating on the controversy that the book Freakonomics has generated, still points to an important issue: how women denied the choice over reproduction, are likely those in situations where they cannot or wish not to care for children. This is hardly healthy and does not provide children with a supportive, nurturing environment.

Two cautions: one, poor, or single mothers are not inherently unfit mothers; two, much crime is not part of anti-social behaviour, but undertaken out of a lack of choices.