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Cost of unintended pregnancies

2013-10-23 19:04:45.06002+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Reason #1 why both the fiscally conservative and the anti-abortion folks should be working as hard as they can to make contraception options freely available and socially acceptable: Guttmacher Institute: Births resulting from unintended pregnancies cost Federal and State governments $12.5 billion in 2008.

Although to put that in perspective, it is just, what, half a shutdown?

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