Pro-Life Advocates Counter Study on Cost of Unintended Pregnancies, Christian News: Wendy Wright questioned the study’s argument that the government should increase funds for contraceptive services such as those Planned Parenthood provides. “Government funding of Planned Parenthood-type pregnancy-prevention programs has not decreased the number of pregnancies that they call ‘unintended,’” Wright said, a fact corroborated by a 2006 Guttmacher Institute study that showed a stable rate of 49 percent of pregnancies were unintended in 1994 and 2001. In fact, between 1994 and 2001, the rate of unintended pregnancies among low-income women increased slightly.
“One obvious reason why Planned Parenthood’s programs do not work is that they encourage irresponsible sex,” Wright said. “Clearly, Planned Parenthood and their allies have no incentive for reducing so-called unintended pregnancies or abortions because then they would be out of business.”
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