It's worth noting in the Bill Bennett
kerfuffle that Matt Yglesias, one of the flagbearers of the
left-wing blogosphere,
insists Bennett said nothing wrong:
Not only is Bennett clearly not
advocating a campaign of genocidal abortion against
African-Americans, but the empirical claim here is unambiguously
true. Similarly, if you aborted all the male fetuses, all those
carried by poor women, or all those carried by Southern women, the
crime rate would decline. Or, at least, in light of the fact that
southern people, poor people, black people, and male people have a
much greater propensity to commit crime than do non-southern,
non-black, non-poor, or non-male people that would have to be our
best guess. The consequences, clearly, would be far-reaching and
unpredictable, but the basic demographic and criminological points
here can't be seriously disputed.
topics:
Abortion, Africa
