Background Information
Political party of Romania in 1960's
Communist.
This type of violent crime fell off harder than any other crime in the 90s.
Homicide
Cost of abortion before legalized.
$500
The main form of birth control in the 1960s
Abortion.
Effect of Romanian abortion ban.
Birth rate rose.
An increased reliance on this reform system led to a crime drop.
Prison system
Year abortion was legalized.
1973
Average number of yearly abortions.
1.5 million.
Nicolae Ceausecu is was the dictator of this country.
Romania.
Nearly two thirds of this crime involve a gun in the U.S.
Homicides.
Number of women having abortions by 1980.
1.6 million.
Body part that gives the least amount of payed weeks off if lost.
Toe (9 weeks)
Reason Ceausescu banned abortion.
To grow Romania's population.
Between 1991 and 2001, the NYPD grew by 45 percent. This was how many more times the national average?
Three
Percent the murder rate fell between 1994 and 1997.
24%
States where crime fell earliest.
Romanian city where massive abortion related protests took place on December 16th, 1966
Timisoara
Putting more people in prison dropped crime by this margin.
33 percent or 1/3
Percent of unborn children likely to grow up in poverty?
50%
Body part that gives the most amount of payed weeks off if lost.
Heart (520 weeks)