How increasing the use of effective contraception could reduce unintended pregnancy and public health care costs

Child Trends researchers were commissioned by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund to estimate, with the microsimulation model FamilyScape, nationwide pregnancy outcomes if all women not seeking pregnancy used the same mix of effective contraceptive methods as women who had participated in a recent evaluation study conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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