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Fact sheets

State Facts on Unintended Pregnancy December 2012

Facts on Unintended Pregnancy in the United States  [PDF version] January 2012

"State Policies in Brief"

Infant Abandonment [PDF] May 2013

Minors' Access to Prenatal Care [PDF] May 2013

Substance Abuse During Pregnancy [PDF] May 2013

Highlighted policy articles

What Women Already Know: Documenting the Social and Economic Benefits of Family Planning  [PDF version] March 2013
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

Affordable Care Act Survives Supreme Court Test, But Medicaid Expansion Placed in Peril  [PDF version] August 2012
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

Wise Investment: Reducing the Steep Cost to Medicaid of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States  [PDF version] August 2011
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

Holding on to Health Reform and What We've Gained for Reproductive Health [PDF] February 2011
Adam Sonfield and Rachel Gold
Contraception

New Pregnancy Assistance Fund Under Health Care Reform: An Analysis  [PDF version] October 2010
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review

Preempting the Need to Repair: Toward a Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Obstetric Fistula  [PDF version] August 2010
Sneha Barot
Guttmacher Policy Review

The Potential of Health Care Reform to Improve Pregnancy-Related Services and Outcomes  [PDF version] August 2010
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

Lessons for Family Planning Providers from Transitions In Maternal and Child Health Funding  [PDF version] March 2007
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

Highlighted research articles

Unintended Pregnancy in the United States: Incidence and Disparities, 2006 [PDF]
Lawrence B. Finer and Mia R. Zolna
Contraception, August 2011

The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies: National and State-Level Estimates  [PDF version]
Adam Sonfield, Kathryn Kost, Rachel Benson Gold and Lawrence B. Finer
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2011

Unintended Pregnancy at the State Level  [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer and Kathryn Kost
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2011

Unintended pregnancy among U.S. adolescents: accounting for sexual activity [PDF]
Lawrence B. Finer, Ph.D.
Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 46, Issue 4, April 2010

Changing Behavioral Risk for Pregnancy among High School Students in the United States, 1991-2007 [PDF]
John S. Santelli, MD, MPH, Mark Orr, PhD, Laura D. Lindberg PhD, and Daniela C. Diaz
Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 44, Issue 7, July 2009

Reports

U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: State Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity [PDF] February 2013
Kathryn Kost and Stanley Henshaw

Unintended Pregnancy: Incidence and Outcomes Among Young Adult Unmarried Women in the United States, 2001 and 2008 [PDF] April 2012
Mia Zolna and Laura Lindberg

U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity [PDF] February 2012
Kathryn Kost and Stanley Henshaw

Memos and statements

Teen Pregnancy Rate Declines: A Response to Adolescent & Family Health [PDF] April 2003

Archived reports

These older Guttmacher reports contain information that is out of date. In many instances, more current information is available elsewhere on the Guttmacher Web site.

U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions: National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity [PDF] January 2010

Why Is Teenage Pregnancy Declining? The Roles of Abstinence, Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use [PDF] December 1999
Jacqueline E. Darroch and Susheela Singh

Teenagers' Pregnancy Intentions and Decisions: A Study of Young Women in California Choosing to Give Birth  [PDF version] January 1999
Jennifer J. Frost and Selene Oslak

 

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