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8.15.07 @ 12:01AM

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The answer [to Mr. Margeon's question] is that the rate of out of wedlock births did, in fact increase after Roe v. Wade. Statistics bear this out. Loads of information on this subject by another critic of Levitt, Steve Sailer, can be found here, including the following excerpt:

Legal abortion is a major cause of what it was supposed to cure -- unwanted pregnancies. Levitt himself notes that following Roe, "Conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent, but births actually fell by 6 percent." So, for every six fetuses aborted in the 1970s, five would never have been conceived except for Roe!

See the graph next to this quote showing the illegitimacy rates skyrocketing for a few decades, before and after Roe.
-- Joe Huston
Yuma, Arizona

FALL FROM GRACE
Re: Ben Stein's CNN Must Be Crazy:

All you have to do is review Nancy Grace's vile statements on the Duke Lacrosse case, and her gutless disappearance when the players were exonerated, and know that not one thing she says or does should be taken seriously. She is as much a caricature of herself as a professional wrestler.
-- Robert S. Cypher

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Abortion, Constitution, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons