Unintended Pregnancies Cost Government $11 Billion a Year

Unintended Pregnancies Cost Government $11 Billion a Year - WSJ.com: Unintended pregnancies likely cost the federal and state governments more than $11 billion a year, estimated a study published Thursday from the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public-policy organization.

'You're not going to balance the budget by implementing pregnancy-prevention policies--it's a small slice of the pie,' said Adam Thomas, research director at the institution's Center on Children and Families and co-author of the paper, which was published Thursday in [the pro-abortion] Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. But he said that reducing the costs that the government pays for the medical care of women who didn't intend to get pregnant and their young children could narrow the federal deficit.

Editor: Not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood embraced the study's findings.