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Sorry for missing or passing over your response, but in review i would say that that finding out the percentage of abortions per per live births is what you are looking for, yet the more recent comparison i could only find is from 2004/05 data. Note that according to AGI (Alan Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood research arm), which is considered more accurate, Wash. DC ranked #1 in % of abortions in 2004 and 05, and according to the latest Census tabulation it is in #1 of homosexual households.

Below is the best table i could find, which is from http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/statesabrate.html. I highlighted the rank columns and placed highest states names and numbers in bold. It could be interesting to compare this with my table of other correlations.

Percent of known pregnancies ending in reported abortions by state with state rank

state	abortions by residents, in/out of state									abortions occurring in state
	AGI data, 1985		AGI data, 2004		CDC data, 2004		latest official data			AGI data, 2005		latest official data
	abortion %	rank	abortion %	rank	abortion %	rank	abortion %	year	rank	abortion %	rank	abortion %	year	rank
Alabama	25.0	26	15.9	36	14.0	28	13.1	2009	33	15.8	34	14.8	2009	27
Alaska	23.1	29	17.5	28	16.3	22	14.3	2009	28	15.8	35	14.6	2009	28
Arizona	27.7	16	16.3	32	9.6	40	9.8	2009	42	16.9	30	10.0	2009	40
Arkansas	16.7	44	11.9	44	11.1	38	9.1	2009	45	10.8	43	10.3	2009	39
California	40.4	3	27.6	7			33.5	1983	1	27.5	9	9.6*	2007	41*
Colorado	29.5	14	17.3	29	13.6	30	13.6	2006	31	19.0	24	13.5	2006	32
Connecticut	38.5	5	28.7	6	25.6	2	25.6	2006	4	28.8	8	25.2	2006	5
Delaware	26.2	24	25.3	11	23.6	3	23.1	2007	7	30.8	5	29.6	2007	2
District of Columbia	37.5	7	42.8	1	20.1	11	20.1	2006	12	49.9	1	24.0	2006	6
Florida	30.2	13	29.1	5			29.4	2003	3	29.0	7	27.1	2009	4
Georgia	27.5	19	19.0	22	15.7	23	16.6	2007	21	19.1	23	17.1	2006	19
Hawaii	37.7	6	22.1	15	17.3	17	14.3	2008	29	23.0	13	14.4	2008	30
Idaho	14.9	46	10.6	47	7.5	43	5.4	2008	49	7.3	46	5.5	2008	49
Illinois	27.5	18	21.8	16	18.6	13	19.4	2009	14	22.2	16	21.2	2009	9
Indiana	20.6	32	13.0	42	11.4	37	10.4	2007	40	11.3	41	10.8	2007	36
Iowa	20.5	35	13.6	39	12.8	33	12.1	2008	35	14.0	37	13.9	2008	31
Kansas	15.6	45	13.2	41	12.6	34	10.3	2009	41	21.4	18	18.5	2009	17
Kentucky	14.4	48	10.0	49			9.6	2003	43	6.4	50	6.3	2006	48
Louisiana	19.0	41	14.3	37			17.6	1983	16	15.8	36	9.6	2008	42
Maine	24.3	27	17.9	27	15.6	24	15.6	2006	26	16.4	31	15.9	2006	25
Maryland	38.7	4	32.8	4	11.6	36	11.6	2006	36	33.4	4	11.0	2006	35
Massachusetts	33.7	9	25.5	10	23.5	5	23.5	2006	6	26.2	11	23.8	2006	7
Michigan	32.1	10	24.8	12	16.6	20	15.7	2009	25	24.1	12	16.0	2009	24
Minnesota	19.5	39	16.1	33	15.5	25	13.9	2009	30	16.4	32	15.0	2009	26
Mississippi	14.8	47	16.0	35	12.9	32	5.2	2009	50	6.8	47	5.3	2009	50
Missouri	22.0	31	16.5	31	15.2	26	12.4	2008	34	9.7	45	8.4	2008	45
Montana	19.5	38	16.1	34	13.6	29	13.2	2008	32	16.0	33	14.5	2008	29
Nebraska	18.4	42	11.4	46	8.9	42	7.8	2009	46	11.0	42	8.6	2009	44
Nevada	37.2	8	26.5	9	21.0	8	21.0	2006	9	27.3	10	22.2	2006	8
New Hampshire	27.5	17	18.9	23			17.5	1987	17	18.0	27	12.6	1997	34
New Jersey	42.3	2	33.5	3	21.6	7	21.6	2006	8	35.0	3	18.8	2007	15
New Mexico	19.9	36	19.1	21	17.6	16	15.8	2007	23	17.8	28	16.9	2006	21
New York	42.6	1	38.6	2	32.8	1	31.7	2008	2	38.8	2	32.7	2008	1
North Carolina	27.4	20	20.9	20	18.8	12	17.0	2009	18	21.9	17	19.4	2009	13
North Dakota	11.2	50	10.3	48	9.3	41	9.3	2008	44	12.8	38	13.4	2008	33
Ohio	25.7	25	18.3	25	17.3	18	15.7	2009	24	19.2	22	16.5	2009	23
Oklahoma	20.5	34	12.5	43	11.9	35	10.6	2008	38	11.8	40	10.6	2008	38
Oregon	26.3	22	21.1	19	17.8	15	16.8	2009	20	22.4	15	18.7	2009	16
Pennsylvania	26.8	21	21.2	18	20.5	10	20.0	2008	13	19.6	21	20.7	2008	10
Rhode Island	31.3	11	27.3	8	23.5	4	23.5	2006	5	29.8	6	28.1	2006	3
South Carolina	20.5	33	18.5	24	16.9	19	17.0	2007	19	17.1	29	17.0	2007	20
South Dakota	11.7	49	8.0	50	6.8	44	5.5	2008	48	6.6	48	6.6	2008	47
Tennessee	22.2	30	16.7	30	15.0	27	14.7	2008	27	18.2	25	17.5	2006	18
Texas	23.5	28	18.2	26	16.6	21	16.3	2008	22	18.2	26	16.8	2008	22
Utah	10.4	51	6.6	51	6.3	45	5.9	2008	47	6.6	49	6.6	2008	46
Vermont	26.2	23	21.3	17	18.5	14	18.0	2008	15	20.5	19	19.2	2008	14
Virginia	31.1	12	22.5	14	20.9	9	20.4	2008	10	20.2	20	20.2	2006	11
Washington	28.5	15	23.1	13	22.2	6	20.2	2009	11	22.6	14	20.2	2009	12
West Virginia	16.9	43	11.7	45	10.6	39	10.6	2006	37	10.3	44	8.9	2006	43
Wisconsin	19.5	37	13.6	40	13.0	31	10.4	2009	39	12.2	39	10.7	2009	37
Wyoming	19.0	40	14.0	38	3.5	46	3.5	2006	51	1.0	51	0.1	2006	51

* California data is significantly underreported.

Note that as in things like the morality rate for homosexuals, recent precise data is hard to get to from the government. The Guardian.co.uk also provides a table of the abortion ratio per number but not the %, prefacing it by saying,

So, what are the numbers? Despite - or maybe because of - the political importance of the debate, they're not clear. Compiled by the US Centers for Disease Control they only go up to 2005, and there is some doubt over whether later ones will be published. The report itself only has the tables images, ie, they can't be copied unless you type them out.

Well, that is what we have done, just with a couple of tables - total figures and a breakdown by state. There are some omissions. California, the most populous state in the union, does not compile (or release) abortion figures. But this is what there is. Let us know what you can do with it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/nov/30/abortion-us-states-obama-healthcare-data/print

Also http://www.lifenews.com/2012/01/23/54559615-abortions-since-roe-vs-wade-decision-in-1973/ states,

In a new document, “Abortion Statistics: United States Data and Trends,” NRLC education director Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon estimates that there have been 54,559,615 abortions since 1973 based on data from both the Centers for Disease Control and the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood research arm. Guttmacher receives numbers directly from abortion centers themselves and is the prime source for more current figures because the Centers for Disease Control has never tabulated accurate numbers of abortions. The CDC relies on figures from state health departments, some of which rely on voluntary reporting — and it hasn’t had data from some states such as California and New Hampshire for more than a decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States#Reasons_for_abortions provides thee results:

A 2004 study by the Guttmacher Institute reported that women listed the following amongst their reasons for choosing to have an abortion: [43]

74% Having a baby would dramatically change my life

73% Can’t afford a baby now

48% Don’t want to be a single mother or having relationship problems

38% Have completed my childbearing

32% Not ready for a(nother) child

25% Don’t want people to know I had sex or got pregnant

22% Don’t feel mature enough to raise a(nother) child

14% Husband or partner wants me to have an abortion

13% Possible problems affecting the health of the fetus

12% Concerns about my health

6% Parents want me to have an abortion

1% Was a victim of rape

less than 0.5% Became pregnant as a result of incest

Finally, in another aspect of liberalism, the below is from http://www.census.gov/hhes/samesex/files/ss-report-tables.xls, on how many homosexual households are reported per state (it is an estimated correction from the 2010 census)

Appendix Table 1a. Percent of All Households Same-sex Couple Households, by State:
Census 2000, 2010 Census and the American Community Survey 2010

			ACS 2010
Area	Census 2000	2010 Census	Estimate	Std. Err.

United States	0.563	0.773	0.518	0.006
Alabama	0.467	0.598	0.300	0.039	45
Alaska	0.532	0.717	0.295	0.086	46
Arizona	0.649	0.880	0.649	0.053
Arkansas	0.424	0.611	0.360	0.050
California	0.801	0.998	0.726	0.022	6
Colorado	0.606	0.817	0.618	0.053
Connecticut	0.567	0.784	0.672	0.067
Delaware	0.625	0.979	0.565	0.095
District of Columbia	1.481	1.929	1.172	0.148	1
Florida	0.648	0.884	0.576	0.029
Georgia	0.642	0.832	0.456	0.036
Hawaii	0.592	0.933	0.779	0.100	4
Idaho	0.399	0.560	0.315	0.067
Illinois	0.498	0.671	0.414	0.028
Indiana	0.437	0.657	0.402	0.038
Iowa	0.322	0.535	0.372	0.048
Kansas	0.383	0.555	0.330	0.050
Kentucky	0.447	0.673	0.405	0.041
Louisiana	0.532	0.703	0.318	0.039
Maine	0.655	0.970	0.774	0.109	5
Maryland	0.568	0.788	0.485	0.048
Mass	0.700	1.023	0.829	0.059	3
Michigan	0.406	0.562	0.389	0.028
Minnesota	0.483	0.657	0.602	0.040
Mississippi	0.456	0.563	0.258	0.048	48
Missouri	0.430	0.642	0.425	0.037
Montana	0.340	0.560	0.401	0.100
Nebraska	0.350	0.520	0.394	0.059
Nevada	0.662	0.926	0.551	0.072
New Hampshire	0.570	0.893	0.553	0.096
New Jersey	0.542	0.750	0.494	0.044
New Mexico	0.663	0.984	0.701	0.094
New York	0.659	0.892	0.636	0.028
North Carolina	0.517	0.728	0.474	0.033
North Dakota	0.273	0.396	0.292	0.074	47
Ohio	0.426	0.621	0.402	0.025
Oklahoma	0.429	0.671	0.443	0.047
Oregon	0.670	0.986	0.695	0.070
Pennsylvania	0.443	0.670	0.438	0.028
Rhode Island	0.605	0.886	0.885	0.155	2
South Carolina	0.496	0.640	0.318	0.041
South Dakota	0.285	0.431	0.181	0.063	49
Tennessee	0.456	0.655	0.400	0.040
Texas	0.580	0.756	0.493	0.024
Utah	0.481	0.662	0.447	0.055
Vermont	0.803	1.091	0.697	0.109
Virginia	0.511	0.672	0.443	0.039
Washington	0.700	0.927	0.632	0.048
West Virginia	0.396	0.686	0.311	0.054	44
Wisconsin	0.395	0.598	0.414	0.030
Wyoming	0.417	0.506	0.175	0.069	50

Source: Census 2000 and 2010 Summary File 1 and 2010 American Community Survey.