Do We Care About Truth?

Authors :: Samuelson, Robert J.
Source :: Newsweek. 9/6/1999, Vol. 134 Issue 10, p76. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.
Publication Year :: 1999
Abstract: Discusses controversy surrounding a study that linked a decline in United States crime rates with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Publication of the study done by economist Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago and law professor John Donohue III of Stanford University; Statistics; Circumstantial evidence for the role of abortion in increased, as well as decreased, crime.