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 …

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 …

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 …

Objectives. We monitored trends in pregnancy by intendedness and outcomes of
unintended pregnancies nationally and for key subgroups between 2001 and 2008 …

The goal of reducing unintended pregnancy was identified in Healthy People 2000 [1], but
the measures and objectives created to reach this goal have often focused solely on …

Approximately half of pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended:
They either occurred too soon or were not intended at any time. 1 This commonly cited …

Preventing unplanned pregnancies and enabling women and couples to time their
childbearing are central public health goals. Exercising this control is a goal of most …

Background The rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States increased slightly
between 2001 and 2008 and is higher than that in many other industrialized countries …

CONTEXT: Many pregnancies are unintended, particularly in certain population groups.
Determining whether unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in rates between …

CONTEXT: Unintended pregnancy is a key reproductive health indicator, but rates have
never been calculated for all 50 states. METHODS: State‐level estimates of unintended …