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**9/15/11** **Freakonomics Questions**
 * Statistics Journal**

From 1989 to present day the crime rate in the United States has decreased and Steven Levitt talks about this topic and evaluate why this has occurred. He talks about

what the government and news stations reasons why the crime rate has gone down. It was a form of causation that was being saw over the United States.

Levitt has different reasonings that the crime rate has decreased. His reasonings are that in the states that abortion was legal, the crime rates were the lowest in the

country. When the government made abortion illegal nationally, crime rate went down immediately. So he came to the conclusion that when abortion is legal, crime goes

down. In states the where abortion centers were easily available, there was a crime decrease of 30%. There was a change in crime under 25 year olds and people who

were older then 25 the crime rate stay the same.

Yes, I do believe that Levitt is correct by this analysts because it is proven true and when the government changed the abortion laws, the crime rate did go down. I also

believe he is right because he put numerous time into his conclusion and has many sources.

Roe vs. Wade was the dispute over the abortion laws in the United States. It changed it so that the women would have there own say about whether they wanted an

abortion or not. Roe vs. Wade was a national debate and was ended with abortion being legal.

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