If abortion cuts crime, does it make sense to view it as the worst act of all?

When it comes to crime, we always start with the problem and the people who cause it.

If abortion cuts crime, does it make sense to view it as the worst act of all?

Which seems a good and logical place to begin. It is, after all, precisely where we start when we look at other problems, like mental illness. Psychiatrist Raj Persaud, however, maintains this approach is flawed.

“Psychologists and psychiatrists have focused their research on those who do badly under stress and become ill,” he writes.

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