I'm not sure if this would be better in politics so any mod can move this if there is a better place.
We were reading the paper this morning and found this article. I am appalled and disgusted by what Bill Bennett said about a solution to lower crime. I think that it is horrible and very racist. I have always been pro-choice, but if this is the direction some people are willing to take it, I would become a pro-lifer in a heart beat. I have included an excerpt from the article and also a link to the sound clip and more follow up interviews. Just wondering if everyone else is as shocked and disgusted as I am about this opinion.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006
Quote:
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Bennett conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then added again, "but the crime rate would go down."
Bennett's remark was apparently inspired by the claim that legalized abortion has reduced crime rates, which was posited in the book Freakonomics (William Morrow, May 2005) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. But Levitt and Dubner argued that aborted fetuses would have been more likely to grow up poor and in single-parent or teenage-parent households and therefore more likely to commit crimes; they did not put forth Bennett's race-based argument.
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While I do believe that crime stems from having a lack of resources, I do not believe that abortion is the answer. People need to look into better education and supply more opportunities to people in poverty. But I will let you state your thoughts while I go fume for awhile.