Within the past two decades, crime rates have dropped significantly in the United States. In the book Freakonomics by economists Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, they claim that the main reasons for the crime drop such as better policing strategies, more incarcerations per capita, strict gun control laws, changes in the drug market, and stronger economy only make up for about half of the decrease. The impact of the Roe V. Wade decision, in the opinion of the authors, has affected the amount of felonies in the country. “The very factors that drove millions of American women to have an abortion also seemed to predict that their children, had they been born, would have led unhappy and possibly criminal lives. “(Levitt and Dubner). Although