{"id":284577,"date":"2023-02-04T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284577"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:38:14","slug":"cdc-report-unmarried-women-9-times-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cdc-report-unmarried-women-9-times-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC report: Unmarried women abort nearly 9 times more than married women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0for 2020<\/a> reveals that unmarried women have nearly nine times as many abortions as married women. This data confirms older data published by Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate<\/a>,” the Guttmacher Institute, and is similar to what has been reported<\/a> in past years. It also revealed that women in their 20s have the most abortions, and women of color continue to have disproportionately high rates of abortion.<\/p>\n

Majority of abortions committed on women who are unmarried<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2020<\/a>, the CDC reported data on the marital status of women who had 497,786 abortions among 40 reporting areas.<\/p>\n

The data, which excluded<\/em> “12 reporting areas (California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York State, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming) that did not report, did not report by marital status, or did not meet reporting standards,” found that 13.7% of women who obtained an abortion were married, while a whopping 86.3% were unmarried.<\/p>\n

“The abortion ratio was 46 abortions per 1,000 live births for married women and 412 abortions per 1,000 live births for unmarried women,” the CDC wrote<\/a>. This means that for every 100 live births, married women aborted 4.6 babies while unmarried women aborted just over 41.2 preborn children. In other words, unmarried women will abort 8 to 9 times more babies than their married counterparts.<\/p>\n

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Majority of abortions on unmarried women in 2020<\/p><\/div>\n

Older data\u00a0compiled<\/a>\u00a0by Guttmacher researchers for\u00a02014<\/a>\u00a0also found that never-married women accounted for the largest proportion of abortions (45.9%) and had an abortion rate of 16.9 per 1000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen cohabiting with but not married to their partners had the highest abortion rate: 31.0 per 1000. Between 2008 and 2014, declines in abortion were most pronounced for cohabitating women (39%) and lowest for married women (21%), although the latter group had a low abortion rate in both periods,\u201d Guttmacher noted.<\/p>\n

Women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions<\/b><\/p>\n

“Among the 48 areas that reported abortion numbers by women\u2019s age for 2020, women in their 20s accounted for more than half of abortions (57.2%),” the CDC wrote<\/a> in 2020<\/a>. The report noted,\u00a0“Women aged 20\u201324 and 25\u201329 years accounted for the highest percentages of abortions (27.9% and 29.3%, respectively) and had the highest abortion rates (19.2 and 19.0 abortions per 1,000 women aged 20\u201324 and 25\u201329 years, respectively).”<\/p>\n

The categories showed the following percent of abortions:<\/p>\n