Costs and Potential Savings
The public cost of unintended pregnancy is estimated to be about 11 billion dollars per year in short term medical costs. This includes costs of births, one year of infant medical care and costs of fetal loss. Preventing unintended pregnancy would save the public over 5 billion dollars per year in short term medical costs. Savings in long term costs and in other areas would be much larger. By another estimate, the direct medical costs of unintended pregnancies, not including infant medical care, was $5 billion in 2002.
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