For many years, most of us in the Society of Family Planning and the wider reproductive
health community have relied on the number of unintended pregnancies as a justification for …

Potter and colleagues are right: the retrospective, population-level measure of unintended
pregnancy—typically presented as a rate among women of reproductive age or as a …

Debates about women's reproductive health and reproductive health care often reflect
fundamental disagreements about women's autonomy and agency over their bodies. As …

No validated measures are currently available to assess women's ability to achieve their
reproductive intentions, also referred to as “reproductive autonomy.” We developed and …

Abstract Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, there
has been increased attention to high‐quality and rights‐based family planning, but these …

BACKGROUND: The incidence of unintended pregnancy is among the most essential health
status indicators in the field of reproductive health. One ongoing goal of the US Department …

Methods: Data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) were used to
compare levels of unintended pregnancy among contraceptive users based on two …

Family planning is hailed as one of the great public health achievements of the last century,
and worldwide acceptance has risen to three-fifths of exposed couples. In many countries …

Based on data from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth, exposure to the risk of
unintended pregnancy is classified by use of specific contraceptive methods and by nonuse …

249 Volume 31, Number 5, September/October 1999 cidentally” pregnant permits people to
duck the onerous responsibility of having to decidewhether to enter into parenthood, and to …