There is evidence that the monumental decision in in 1973 had a direct impact on crime years later.

There is evidence that the monumental decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973 had a direct impact on crime years later. If more poor and unwed women were able to end their pregnancies, fewer poor children were being born into lives of neglect and poverty. Since crime is a natural outgrowth of being poor and disadvantaged, and unwanted, there would be less crime because those people never existed.