Is there a causal link between the drastic crime-drop , at the turn of the millennium , to the remote event of the legalization of abortion in the mid 90 's ? Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner would have us believe , in their movie Freakonomics , that there is a statistically definable and clear relationship between the decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v .Wade and the reduction of criminality In brief , they posit that the legalization of abortion in the 70 's set into motion a chain of causal events which would eventually lead to a dramatic decrease in criminal incidence and crime rates in the last twenty years . The argument is buttressed by the fact that the statistical data in the rise of legalized abortion appear to militate criminal incidence throughout the country .
 In the decision of the Court , the majority believe that the woman has the right to decide whether or not to continue with the pregnancy .However , such right is not absolute since the moment the first trimester ends , the State acquires the right to prevent or intervene with such 
decision by the mother because of a valid compelling state interest . At any rate , the Supreme Court reveals that this will help reduce the incidence of bearing unwanted children and causing more trauma for both the mother and the child in the long run . Levitt and Dubner , on the 
hand , added color into this line of argument by stretching the correlation of unwanted children to either the rise or fall of crime.
The less there are unacknowledged and marginalized children in the streets , then soon enough , society will feel its long term benefits in the decrease in criminality after a reasonable number of years .Stated more succinctly , the would-be criminals of the 90 's no longer existed to wreak havoc among the populace precisely because they have been denied entry into the world a couple of years back . The