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The US would save $12 billion a year if every woman had access to birth control

• Giving people access to birth control isn’t just a necessary step toward securing reproductive justice — it’s cost effective, too.
• A new study from Child Trends commissioned by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund found that if every woman in the United States had access to the most effective birth control possible, it could save as much as $12 billion a year in health care costs.
• The domino effect goes like this: 
• A lack of access to birth control means more unwanted pregnancies. 
• More unwanted pregnancies usually lead to “negative pregnancy-related behaviors,” like smoking during pregnancy or delaying prenatal care, researchers wrote. 
• And these negative behaviors, in turn, create poor health outcomes for both mother and child, which ends up costing billions in public health care dollars. Read more (3/8/17 11:35 AM)