CH: 4 Where have all the criminals gone?

To me this was the most unusual connection that the author has made yet. I mean who honestly would think that the legalization of abortion could have an unintended side effect such as lowering crime rate. I found it interesting that many proffessionals attributed the lower crime rate to different things such as better policing. I could easily have realized that it wasn't that though because I feel like police officers fail because there are laws made that simply can't be enforced. Why make a law when you know that you will have no way to make people comply. I feel that the first step that anyone could take in lowering crime is to get lawmakers to make laws that make sense and can be enforced.

I found the debate on how many fetuses are worth one human life to be very controversial. I feel like you could ask 200 people that question and get 200 different answers. Thats probably why abortion is such a hot topic but when you look at it from that point of view I don't see the debate on abortion ever being solved. I feel the best way to prevent that argument is to educate kids about sex from a very early age. And not just the short 15 minute sex education video they show you in your 4th grade gym class. Kids need to be informed of what sex truely is and how to do it safely if they choose to. I feel like the mind set that many educators have is just to teach kids that sex is bad and they should stay away from it all together. This clearly doesn't work though. Also, contraceptives need to be cheap and available to people. This is not the case though. Last time I saw condoms for sale it was 4 dollars for 3 condoms. If they are trying to dicourage sex by making the prices of condoms more expensive it surely hasn't worked. Trying to get people to stop having sex is even harder than trying to convince people not to do drugs. People will simply just have unprotected sex because they can't afford condoms and that only leads to problems. Although sex is much more accepted and talked about now than it was 50 years ago, it is still seen as taboo for two teenagers to sex. We need to stop looking at sex as this sacred thing that can't be mentioned and see it for what it really is; our species means or reproduction. Almost any other living thing on earth has sex too and its probably not too sacred for them.