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"Fredric L. Rice DeRothschilde, Esq." |
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28 Sep 2005 10:26:29 PM |
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Christian Family Values: Abort Black Babies |
Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and
your crime rate would go down"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people
who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve
Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration
Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching,
extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce
crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black
baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Bennett
conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an
impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then
added again, "but the crime rate would go down."
Bennett's remark was apparently inspired by the claim that legalized
abortion has reduced crime rates, which was posited in the book
Freakonomics (William Morrow, May 2005) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen
J. Dubner. But Levitt and Dubner argued that aborted fetuses would have
been more likely to grow up poor and in single-parent or teenage-parent
households and therefore more likely to commit crimes; they did not put
forth Bennett's race-based argument.
From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's
Morning in America:
CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about
the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social
Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months
here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost
revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something
years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media
just doesn't -- never touches this at all.
BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it
would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too.
I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue
for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I
mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book
Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know,
they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down
is that abortion is up. Well --
CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either,
because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I
do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could --
if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in
this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an
impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your
crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching,
extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.
Bill Bennett's Morning in America airs on approximately 115 radio
stations with an estimated weekly audience of 1.25 million listeners.
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| User: "towelie" |
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| Title: Re: Christian Family Values: Abort Black Babies |
29 Sep 2005 03:37:56 AM |
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TV's Fredric L. Rice DeRothschilde, Esq. wrote:
Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and
your crime rate would go down"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people
who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve
Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration
Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching,
extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce
crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black
baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Bennett
conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an
impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then
added again, "but the crime rate would go down."
Hell, why stop with the "niggers"? Why not nuke the entire planet, killing
off all of humanity. After all, the crime rate would certainly go down.
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