Scucca

Kerwin Kofi and Melvin find evidence to suggest that abortion legalisation is linked to substance abuse:

We assess whether in utero exposure to legalized abortion in the early 1970's affected individuals' propensities to use controlled substances as adolescents. We exploit the fact that some states legalized abortion before national legalization in 1973 to compare differences in substance use for adolescents across birth cohorts in different states. We find that persons exposed to early legalization were, on average, much less likely to use controlled substances. We also assess how substance use varies with state level birth rates and abortion ratios. Overall, our results suggest that legalization lowered substance use because of the selective use of abortion by relatively disadvantaged women.

A source of the abortion/crime links ignored by the morality coercers?

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Gladiator

What about fewer children with learning diabilities if women who are using drugs have better access to full range family planning services?

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How did Our Oil get under Their Sand?

Scucca

Has there been any research in that area?

We have social ills, often found repugnant by conservatism, actively encouraged by anti-choice morality coercion. Strange fellows in their inconsistency!