Given that this trend is global, doesn't increased access to safe abortion make more sense than claims about lead specifically in the United States? In the US,

Given that this trend is global, doesn't increased access to safe abortion make more sense than claims about lead specifically in the United States? In the US, the sharp reduction in crime happened 18-24 years after the legalization of Roe v. Wade. Unwanted children who would have been juvenile delinquents were simply never born. This would fit in nicely with the claims other commenters have made about some places that have had an increase in sexually violent crimes, since again, the children who would have been products of those encounters are never born, so the overall trend is still a decrease in violent crime. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...