More Pregnant Girls Said Opting To Bear Their Babies

By Millicent Lawton

An increasing number of girls under age 15 who become pregnant appear to be carrying their pregnancies to term rather than obtaining abortions, an annual federal report indicates.

The ratio of abortions to live births for girls in that age group in 1988 was lower than in any other year since 1972, according to the survey of legal abortions released late last month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

There were 949 legal abortions for each 1,000 live births among that group in 1988, the last year for which data were...