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===Controversial Radio Show Comment===

On [[September 28]], [[2005]], a caller to Bennett's radio talk show ''Morning in America'' proposed the idea that the [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] system might be solvent today if abortion hadn't been permitted following the [[Roe v. Wade]] decision. Bennett countered, that opposition to the abortion cannot be defended by the pragmatic reasons, like economics, because then, other pragmatic reasons, like crime statistics in the African American community, may end up being used in support of the abortion. In his argument, he used the book [[Freakonomics]], that illustrated a link between the legalization of the abortion, and a subsequent crime reduction. His remark has been criticizedlabeled as racist by many liberal media outlets and liberal politicians:

CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.