What's wrong with the Ivory Tower? The appointment of Peter ("Death to Disabled Infants!") Singer to the bioethics faculty at Princeton University sparked considerable controversy. Recently, University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and Stanford University Law School professor John Donohue III caused a stir with their research paper “Legalized Abortion and Crime.” The authors argue that legalized abortion fueled the drop in crime in the 1990s because a new subclass of Humanity they identified – "women most at risk of having children who might engage in criminal activity" – have rates of higher abortion rates, thus preemptively executing would-be criminals. This subclass, we are told, is predominantly populated by teenage, single, and/or African American women. Talk about your prenatal racial profiling! The American public is supposed to be grateful to have been spared not only the cost of crimes, but also due process, trial by jury, incarceration, appeals, and execution. The document also notes the title as "preliminary and incomplete" and contains all manner of warnings about "well-recognized potential deficiencies in the [crime] data" and admits the general impossibility of ever proving the claimed causal link with any degree of certainty . Yet it brazenly attempts to put a happy face on the painful personal and national tragedy that is abortion. This is why articles praising the results are popping up in the pro-abortion press, while indignant editorials question the eugenicist tendencies of the authors. After all, it was Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger who established contraceptive clinics in ghettos so that the "defective" and "human weeds" could be eliminated. to 20 percent of girls in the same age range in D.C. public schools. About 10% of Best Friends participants aged 12 to 18 had had sex, compared to 72% of their peers. Why the drop in crime in the 1990s? Many plausible explanations have been given (and the authors haven't paid much attention), including higher conviction rates and longer prison sentences keeping repeat offenders off the streets, more police and better policing strategies, declines in cocaine trafficking crack and increased spending on victim precautions such as security guards, alarms, car theft devices, etc. May I suggest another avenue of research? Let us determine what conditions lead families to produce academics who have no sense of the sanctity and dignity of human life. Some early childhood interventions in values ​​education could really pay off.