Guttmacher Institute

Research into unintended pregnancies often focuses on their socioeconomic impact on mothers and children, but there’s a broader financial dimension at play: Unintended pregnancies cost the U.S. taxpayer a lot of money. A pair of articles published in Perspectives in 2011 set out to...

Since the late 1990s, there has been no shortage of discussion about what we mean when we talk about unintended pregnancy—and whether research into the topic has been asking the right questions. Early in the conversation, John Santelli and colleagues reviewed the literature and talked with...

Throughout its 50 years, Perspectives has published a great deal of work on unintended pregnancy, covering such topics as how often it occurs, its outcomes and impacts, who is most likely to experience it and how it can be prevented. In recent decades, sexual and reproductive health...

At first glance, it makes sense to assume that all pregnancies among women using contraceptives are unintended. After all, why would a woman who wants to become pregnant use a contraceptive? Not so fast: A 1999...