Five startling facts about pregnancy and abortion in America

Fewer women are getting pregnant.

The pregnancy rate for American women between 15 and 44 dropped 12 percent between 1990 and 2009, according to a new Center for Disease Control report out today on pregnancy and abortion. In 2009, there were 102.1 pregnancies per 1,000 women, a drop from 115.8 pregnancies per 1,000 women in 1990.

Much of the drop is due to a huge decrease in teen pregnancies.

Racial disparities on teen pregnancy are getting smaller but still pretty bad.

The only women having more pregnancies are older than 30. 

The abortion rate has fallen by one-third in the past two decades.This is the result of two trends, the first being an overall decrease in pregnancies. The second is a smaller portion of pregnancies ending in abortion. Among married women, the percent of pregnancies ending in abortion fell from 10.6 percent in 1990 to 6.1 percent in 2009. Among unmarried women, there was a a significant drop from 47.7 percent of pregnancies ending in abortion in 1990 to 28.9 percent in 2009.