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(That`s what former education secretary and drug czar Bill Bennett did last Wednesday on his radio show . When a caller suggested that legal abortions had depleted the tax base for Social Security, Bennett counseled against such utilitarian arguments.) I do know that it`s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could'”if that were your sole purpose'”you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down, ... That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

- Bill Bennett

What he said was, `If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.` That`s what he said.

- Gordon Peterson

You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

- Andrew McKee

While the engine burn abort was unfortunate, we still expect to accomplish the rendezvous objectives, ... We expect that the later rendezvous date will not diminish the overall science return.

- Andy Lally