These would be the right questions to ask. And another question is how do you define an unwanted baby? Maybe a couple is using NFP or ABC and they get a “surprise”. At that point in time, the baby is unwanted. But, they struggle through and by the time the baby is born they’re reconciled to it and even a little joyful, even though it will mean sacrifice for the family. Is this baby unwanted? I would argue that babies whose mother actually aborts them are much more unwanted.
Now as for criminals. No, all criminals don’t come from unwanted pregnancies (because of the way you phrased the question, one counter-example will do). But the majority of non-serial killer criminals come from truly awful homes. Obviously your average 16 year old gang member who already has a rap sheet does not have even minimal parental involvement or supervision.
And I think it was these people, the members of youth crime, that the research was trying to track. Young men perpetrate an awful lot of the crime in the urban landscape. And especially young men growing up without two parents, so the idea is that if you reduce the numbers of these people, young people growing up without two parents, you would reduce the crime rate. Well, among the women getting abortions, there are quite a few whose partners would not stay to rear the child. This is where the disproportionate numbers of African-Americans comes in. African-American children are more likely to be reared by a single parent then they are to be reared by two parents. Which would likely be why abortion is more sought out by African-American women, because they know they would be rearing the child alone.
Not that I’m making a moral argument here, I’m only trying to understand the research.
