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br> -- R.G. Lawrence br> St Joseph, Missouri /p> p> PERMISSIVENESS BREEDS DEPRAVITY br> Re: Richard Kirk's More Freedom, Less Freakonomics : /p> p>This from the book review by Richard Kirk on John Lott's, Freedomnomics : br> /p>

Lott argues, by contrast, that the Supreme Court's legislative fiat in 1973 (Roe v.Wade) actually increased crime by boosting out-of-wedlock births and single-parent households. These crime-correlated statistics exploded in the 1970s and '80s as social sanctions against extra-marital sex disappeared and as the legal but odious option of abortion was rejected by millions of now-pregnant unmarried women.

br> Huh? If author John Lott actually makes this argument, it is preposterous. My hope is that Mr. Kirk somehow poorly worded this paragraph in the review. How Roe v. Wade would

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