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United States Pregnancy

Unintended Pregnancy

For decades, the Guttmacher Institute has estimated the incidence, consequences and costs of unintended pregnancy; examined what drives unintended pregnancy rates and trends; identified groups at high risk of unintended pregnancy; and promoted policies and programs that enable women to time and space their pregnancies.

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    Unintended Pregnancy in the United States

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    U.S. Unintended Pregnancy Rate Falls to 30-Year Low; Declines Seen in Almost All Groups, but Disparities Remain

  • Policy Analysis

    New Clarity for the U.S. Abortion Debate: A Steep Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Is Driving Recent Abortion Declines

Top Facts & Statistics

  • $21B

    estimated total public expenditures on unintended pregnancies nationwide in 2010
  • 45%

    of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the U.S. each year are unintended
  • 1.9M

    unintended pregnancies prevented by publicly funded family planning in 2014

Resources

  • U.S. map with text "State Laws and Policies"
    January 1, 2021 State Laws and Policies

    Minors’ Access to Prenatal Care

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  • U.S. map with text "State Laws and Policies"
    January 1, 2021 State Laws and Policies

    Infant Abandonment

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  • November 2020 Policy Analysis

    Not Up for Debate: LGBTQ People Need and Deserve Tailored Sexual and Reproductive Health Care

    Ruth Dawson and Tracy Leong

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    • Abortion
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  • October 2020 Report

    Pregnancies, Births and Abortions in the United States, 1973–2016: National and State Trends by Age

    Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Kathryn Kost and Sean Finn

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    The Broad Benefits of Contraceptive Use in the United States

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    Contraceptive Use in the United States

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    World Contraception Day: Celebrating Progress and Maintaining Momentum

    Heather D. Boonstra and Leah H. Keller,IMPT Blog

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  • January 2019 Fact Sheet

    Unintended Pregnancy in the United States

    United States

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  • June 2018 Research Article

    A prospective measure of unintended pregnancy in the United States

    Lawrence B. Finer, Laura D. Lindberg and Sheila Desai,Contraception

    United States

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  • April 2018 Fact Sheet

    State Facts on Publicly Funded Family Planning Services

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Publicly funded family planning centers play a critical role in helping many women avoid unintended pregnancy. Considering that nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, we simply can’t afford not to invest in publicly funded family planning

Adam Sonfield

Associate Director of Policy Analysis

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