UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES COST FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS $21 BILLION IN 2010
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UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES COST FEDERAL AND
STATE GOVERNMENTS $21 BILLION IN 2010
Increasing Publicly Funded Family Planning Services Could
Substantially Reduce These Costs
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U.S. government expenditures on births, abortions and miscarriages resulting from unintended pregnancies nationwide totaled $21 billion in 2010, according to “Public Costs from Unintended Pregnancies and the Role of Public Insurance Programs in Paying for Pregnancy-Related Care: National and State Estimates for 2010,” by Adam Sonfield and Kathryn Kost. In 19 states, public expenditures related to unintended pregnancies exceeded $400 million in 2010. Texas spent the most ($2.9 billion), followed by California ($1.8 billion), New York ($1.5 billion) and Florida ($1.3 billion); those four states are also the nation’s most populous.
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Previous research has demonstrated that investing in publicly funded family planning services enables women to avoid unwanted pregnancies and space wanted ones, which is good not only for women and families, but also for society as a whole. In the absence of the current U.S. publicly funded family planning effort, the public costs of unintended pregnancies in 2010 would have been 75% higher. http://guttmacher.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca1e42e28a45edcdc4e51bc32&id=9917b72bfb&e=d208298ba7
Sonfield and Kost report that the total gross savings from averting all unintended pregnancies in 2010 would have been $15.5 billion. This is less than the total public cost of all unintended pregnancies, because even if all women had been able to time their pregnancies as they wanted, some still would have had planned births that were publicly funded. These potential savings do not account for the cost of providing family planning services and other interventions that might be required to prevent the unintended pregnancies.
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"These findings demonstrate the continuing importance of Medicaid and other public health insurance programs in preserving maternal and child health, and in supporting pregnancy-related care," says Adam Sonfield, coauthor of the new report.
For more information:
Unintended Pregnancy Rates at the State Level: Estimates for 2010 and Trends Since 2002
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Fact Sheet: Unintended Pregnancy in the United States (national)
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State Facts on Unintended Pregnancy
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Fact Sheet: Publicly Funded Family Planning Services in the United States (national)
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State Facts on Publicly Funded Family Planning Services
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State Data Center
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