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The Birth-Control Riddle: Fifty Years After the Pill?s Debut, Almost Half of Pregnancies in the U.S. Are Unplanned

By ADF Alliance Alert

Wall Street Journal: "Yet despite all these options, the rates of unplanned pregnancies remain high: Almost half of all pregnancies in the U.S.?some 3.1 million a year?are unintended, according to the most recent government survey, from 2001. One out of every two American women aged 15 to 44 has at least one unplanned pregnancy in her lifetime. Among unmarried women in their 20s, seven out of 10 pregnancies are unplanned. An updated version of those numbers from the 2006 National Survey of Family Growth is expected to be released next month. But population experts don't anticipate much change; the rate of unplanned pregnancy was the same in 1994, and smaller studies have found that even newer birth-control methods haven't made much of a dent . . ." (The article contains several charts)

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).