Washington, DC, Nov. 6 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - A
new report by the US government's National Center for Health Statistics
indicates that sex outside marriage is a major contributing factor to the 1.3
million abortions for 1999. Of the 6.28 million pregnancies in 1999 there were
about 3.96 million live births, 1.31 million induced abortions, and 1 million
fetal losses (miscarriages and stillbirths), says the report.
Comparing married and unmarried women on abortion, the report indicates that the
abortion rate for unmarried women is over four times higher than that of married
women. Looking at pregnancies among married women, three out of four ended in a
live birth in 1999, and 7 percent ended in abortion. However, among unmarried
women about half the pregnancies ended in a live birth while about 40 percent
ended in abortion. In 1990, pregnancies among unmarried women were more likely
to end in abortion than in a live birth.