Stephen Dubner

Yeah, planned.

Well, not even planned necessarily.

That's true.

Because honestly, I'm the eighth of eight.

I don't know how planned I was, but I was very loved.

On my birthday, all my older sisters write about the day I came home from the hospital and how happy they were to have a new baby boy.

Yeah, I mean, I have four if you need one.

Older sisters are great.

Anyway, wantedness is good.

Unwantedness is bad.

The odds are if a baby is born into a home where that baby is not wanted, there is a higher chance that that kid will have a bad outcome in life.

When I say bad outcome, meaning lower education, higher crime, lower income, etc.

This is...

inarguable.

So the argument from Steve Levin, John Donahue was that the legalization of abortion provided a way to reduce unwantedness.

And if therefore you reduce unwantedness, what is one of the many other effects you might have down the road?

Maybe fewer people committing crimes because they're growing up in a better circumstance.

Your example is so good because also we've all been herded into and almost what's the cattle prod, you know, electric shock.

Like our brains are just getting prodded every day to be more binary in our thinking.

Hate, love, yes, no, black, white, et cetera.