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The authors of the study linking abortion and crime rates (“Abortion, reduced crime linked, Study suggests 1970s legalization helped lead to ’90s crime drop,” Page 1, Aug. 8) have a good idea, but it’s unlikely, as they suggest, that half of the recent reduction in crime is attributable to Roe vs. Wade. Crime is a complicated result of many forces: age structure, policing programs, incarceration rates, economic trends, drug abuse, parenting and, yes probably, abortion. It would be a monumental task to isolate the effects of any single one of these.
