Was da Chesterton wohl gesagt hätte?

Steven Levitt "is a prolific and diverse writer. But his paper linking a rise in abortion to a drop in crime has made more noise than the rest combined. Levitt and his co-author, John Donohue of Stanford Law School, argued that as much as 50 percent of the huge drop in crime since the early 1990's can be traced to Roe vs. Wade [Mit der Entscheidung im Fall Roe vs. Wade sprach der US Supreme Court 1973 einer Frau das Recht auf Abtreibung während der ganzen Schwangerschaft zu; Scipio]. Their thinking goes like this: the women most likely to seek an abortion -- poor, single, black or teenage mothers -- were the very women whose children, if born, have been shown most likely to become criminals. But since those children weren't born, crime began to decrease during the years they would have entered their criminal prime. In conversation, Levitt reduces the theory to a tidy syllogism: 'Unwantedness leads to high crime; abortion leads to less unwantedness; abortion leads to less crime.'" (NY Times am 3. August 2003; den Artikel von JJ Donohue und SD Levitt: The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.- Quart J Econ 2001; 116(2): 379-420 gibt es zum kostenlosen Volltext-Download bei der MIT Press.)

Abtreibung als faktisch prophylaktische Ausmerzung zukünftiger Knackis. Angewandte Sozialhygiene. Denn wäre ein Leben erst als ungewolltes Kind und dann als Verbrecher und Gefängnisinsasse wirklich lebenswert?

Aber bei uns in Deutschland ist das nicht so. Nein.