NEMJ: Dollars and Cents of Family Planning

Family Planning as a Cost-Saving Preventive Health Service | Health Policy and Reform: "Public funding of family-planning programs has proven to be a wise investment. Every $1 spent on public funding for family planning saves taxpayers $3.74 in pregnancy-related costs, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In 2006, more than 9 million U.S. women received publicly funded family-planning services, and 1 in 4 women who seeks such services gets care at a publicly funded facility. Guttmacher estimates suggest that such services helped women prevent 1.94 million unintended pregnancies and 810,000 abortions."