However, in recent years unmarried women were increasingly more likely to give birth and less likely to have an induced abortion. The report documents striking differences in pregnancy rates by race and ethnicity, reflecting disparities in education, income, access to medical care, and the communities in which they live. Black women report that they want about the same number of births as white women, but black women have almost twice as many pregnancies. Hispanic women want and have substantially more births than either white or black women. Pregnancies among black women are twice as likely to end in abortion as pregnancies among white and Hispanic women.
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A comprehensive report on the topic was released February 11, 2000. United States, 1996.