Study: Nation Pays Steep Price For High Rates of Unintended Pregnancy

Two new studies taking different methodological approaches arrive at the same conclusion: Unintended pregnancy costs U.S. taxpayers roughly $11 billion each year. Both estimates are conservative in that they are limited to public insurance costs for pregnancy and first-year infant care, and both studies conclude that the potential public savings from reducing unintended pregnancy in the United States would be huge. A related new study provides first-ever estimates of unintended pregnancy for each state, and a starting point for future efforts to monitor states’ progress toward reducing unintended pregnancy.

The study found that 2/3 of births resulting from unintended pregnancies—more than one million births—are publicly funded, and the proportion tops 80% in a couple of states. The cost of those births, and the potential gross saving from helping women to avert them, is estimated at $11.1 billion.


http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2011/05/19/index.html

are the victims of child abuse when they are the result of unintended pregnancy.

Wonder if this study would sway any conservatives since they are so concerned with budgets?