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>>fortra+(OP)
Or thanks to the end of leaded gasoline, or the advent of legalized abortion, or some combination of the three, or none of this. The only evidence in this article is one serial killer they maybe tracked down after 25 years of searching.

>>boombo+Of
Why would legalized abortion reduce the rate of serial killers?

>>jncfhn+Ok
When you look at near-history serial killers - ie the famous cases of the 50s-80s, you often find the phrase 'unwanted child' who was neglected/abused by a mother that didn't want the child, often born as a consequence of sex work. In some cases the child was abandoned and sent a broken care system that brought them up with a traumatic childhood.

Legalise abortion and the number of those children brought up with such a defining childhood fall, not completely, but statistically serial killers are rare anyway.