Since the sexual revolution, out-of-wedlock births, sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, and divorce have all risen considerably.

The proportion of all cases of trisomy 21 diagnosed cytogenetically before birth rose from 321/1077 (30%) in 1989 to 423/1115 (38%) in 1991.

Triplet births have also risen, from 60 in 1995, to 299 in 2004.

"The births of infants on Medicaid have risen steeply throughout the region, since service jobs often do not include health insurance."

At the same time, out-of-wedlock births have risen from 1 in 60 births about 10 years ago to 1 in 10 today.

Despite Wisconsin's famously tough crackdown on welfare, nonmarital births rose.

Illegitimate births rose three-fold after World War II, as sexual mores changed.

Multiple births are rising nationally.

On Long Island, multiple births rose from 670 in 1985 to 1,027 in 1989.

Yet quite apart from policies on abortion, out-of-wedlock births have risen without remission for the past 40 years.