Edit: If you click through to the sources PDF, you'll find "The percentage of all births to unmarried women was 40.0% in 2021, down 1% from 2020 (40.5%)".
The number is trending down. Good? Bad?
"The percentage of all births to unmarried women was 40.0% in 2021, down 1% from 2020 (40.5%) (Table 9) (15). The percentage of all births to unmarried women peaked in 2009 at 41.0% (13,15).
The percentage of nonmarital births in 2021 increased from 2020 for non-Hispanic Asian (12.6% in 2021) and Hispanic (53.2%) women. The percentage decreased for non-Hispanic White (27.5%), non-Hispanic Black (70.1%), and non-Hispanic AIAN (68.5%) women. The percentage was unchanged for non- Hispanic NHOPI women (51.8%). The number of nonmarital births was essentially unchanged from 2020 (1,464,121) to 2021 (1,464,455) (15).
Nonmarital birth rates declined from 2020 to 2021 for women in age groups under 30, with the rate for teenagers aged 15–19 dropping 7% (to 13.0 per 1,000 in 2021), and the rate for females aged 15–17 declining to another all-time low (5.6). Conversely, the nonmarital birth rate reached a historic peak of 38.2 for women aged 35–39. The rates were essentially unchanged for women aged 30–34 (58.5) and 40–44 (11.4)."
So it appears to be trending down from a high in 2009.
I've heard that back in Soviet Russia, single moms lied to their children that their father has died in the WWII.
like?...so a little lie fixes the supposed problem...abusive parents, on the other hand, cannot be fixed with a little lie
I'm not sure why the anti-abortion crowd would be thrilled, unless this is an indicator of decreasing numbers of single moms. Oh and of course one must also ask "why is marriage (as opposed to committed life partners, or some other arrangement) important, and how is "married" determined?"
I think the bible is a lot more prescriptive when it comes to abortion than sex outside of marriage, but I'm not exactly a scholar and that's far from the only reason for taking a stance on the issue
Your points are all valid, but I do think there's a component of fixed meaning that projects itself in relation to multiple perspectives and agendas
That said, I couldn't tell if the number was increasing or decreasing with a glance at the underlying data cited
I'm assuming it's an increase because it seems kind of high and correlated statistics like marriage rates have to my knowledge also been decreasing in recent decades
I'm further assuming that's probably a bad thing because positive outcomes are generally correlated with multiple parents and higher family incomes
But if non-traditional family arrangements are supplanting married families then who knows
The word abortion appears zero times. As https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12178933/ points out, the clearest reference is to miscarriage. And there the fetus is valued at far less than a human life.
Just because a religion has taken a position on a topic doesn't mean that their religious texts agree.
Again, assuming it's an increase based on other correlated variables, they're getting what they asked for, so they must be happy, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill
Certainly whether or not abortion qualifies as killing is a matter of interpretation, but judging from signs I've driven by I'd say it's not an unpopular interpretation
No matter how popular the interpretation may be, the Bible *DOES NOT* prescribe a viewpoint on whether abortion is killing. Quite the opposite in fact. What little is said relating to it in the Bible is evidence that abortion is something *LESS* than killing.
It is perfectly valid to believe that abortion is murder. But arguments that the Bible says so are based on invalid logic.
There are even verses in the New Testament that some interpret as giving permission to use violence in self defense, an interpretation I reject: Matthew 10:34 and Luke 22:36
So no, the Bible is not especially clear on killing, either.