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- noun The quality of being
unwanted .
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Examples
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So, one effect of legalizing abortion was to increase "unwantedness" because it reduced pregnant women's moral leverage in getting their boyfriends to marry them.
Chicago Sun-Times Review Blows Away 4th Grade Quality Book Report on Freakonomics in New York Times Book Review: Steve Sailer 2005
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Levitt assumes that legalizing abortion reduces the "unwantedness" of the babies who do get born.
Isn't it a logical inevitability that abortion reduces the crime rate? Steve Sailer 2005
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Physicians for Reproductive Health and the Alan Guttmacher Institute provide data that shows Levitt's simplistic model of "unwantedness" is a joke when applied to the real world.
Archive 2005-05-08 Steve Sailer 2005
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If so, Levitt knew that his central theoretical argument was extremely dubious, but he didn't mention any of that when he pushed his "unwantedness" theory in Freakonomics this year, to vast acclaim and buckets of money.
9/25/05 - 10/2/05 Steve Sailer 2005
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In Levitt's "unwantedness" model, it's implied but never stated that abortion fights illegitimacy.
Archive 2005-05-08 Steve Sailer 2005
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So, one effect of legalizing abortion was to increase "unwantedness" because it reduced pregnant women's moral leverage in getting their boyfriends to marry them.
Archive 2005-05-08 Steve Sailer 2005
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In Levitt's "unwantedness" model, it's implied but never stated that abortion fights illegitimacy.
Well, at least Levitt has a theory! Steve Sailer 2005
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If so, Levitt knew that his central theoretical argument was extremely dubious, but he didn't mention any of that when he pushed his "unwantedness" theory in Freakonomics this year, to vast acclaim and buckets of money.
New Facts Undermining the Freakonomics Abortion-Crime Theory Steve Sailer 2005
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Physicians for Reproductive Health and the Alan Guttmacher Institute provide data that shows Levitt's simplistic model of "unwantedness" is a joke when applied to the real world.
Statistics on "Unwanted Pregnancies" Steve Sailer 2005
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In Levitt's "unwantedness" model, it's implied but never stated that abortion fights illegitimacy.
Archive 2005-05-08 Steve Sailer 2005
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