Charlotte Ostermann

Lawrence Journal-World

August 8, 1999

 

        Before we get too excited about killing potential criminals as a way to reduce the crime rate, let's stop and think.  Take four million as a fraction of the abortions committed since Roe vs. Wade.  Now, if a tenth of those babies would have killed someone (surely not all  poor, unwanted people become criminals) it seems to me that the murder rate alone has increased 900%!

        Of course, the recent study wasn't designed to measure the cost to society of sterilizing women inadvertently via abortion scar tissue; confusing teens so much about the value of life that they dump their newborns in the trash to get on with life; emotionally traumatizing countless women who can never get over the loss of their children; losing the odd poor woman to the modern 'safer' abortionist whose practices are less well regulated than a veterinarian's; wiping out what could have been the backbone of a black middle class renaissance; or dealing with the missing millions of teachers, police officers, doctors, and other workers who could have been contributing to the support and care of the needy and elderly.

        Any fool could see without a scholarly study that in killing millions of people, you're bound to kill lots of potential criminals!  Before we trumpet that abortion has created less crime, let's look honestly at what it has destroyed.

P.S.  I loved the irony of "Roe vs. Wade Created Less Crime" on one page of Sunday's paper and an article about the abhorrent eugenics project on the next!.