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About 35 percent of U.S. women ages 15 to 49 said they received a family planning service between 2022 to 2023, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...
Family planning has become a catch-all phrase for much of the work undertaken in this realm. However, contemporary notions of family planning tend to place a woman and her childbearing decisions at the center of the discussion, as notions of women's empowerment and reproductive autonomy have gained traction in many parts of the world.
The 1.9 billion spent on publicly funded family planning in 2008 saved an estimated $7 billion in short term Medicaid costs. [5] Such services helped women prevent an estimated 1.94 million unintended pregnancies and 810,000 abortions. [5] More than 3 out of 10 women in the U.S. have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old. [6]
The Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970 (enacted as Title X of Public Health Service Act) is the only federal grant program dedicated to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services.
The program was funded in the fiscal year 2025 budget, which allocated “$5.6 million to expand contraceptive coverage and family planning services.” Show comments Advertisement
Unintended pregnancies and high fertility rates can affect everything from quality of life, nutrition standards, access to education and economic opportunities and even access to scarce resources such as food and water for women and children. Family planning programs seek to give women of child-bearing age an opportunity to make their own ...
Women of the time still used a number of birth control measures such as coitus interruptus, inserting lily root and rue into the vagina, and infanticide after birth. [16] Historian John M. Riddle has advanced the hypothesis that women in classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period used herbs to control fertility.
Women's earnings, assets, body mass index, and their children's schooling and body mass index all improve with greater access to birth control. [22] Family planning, via the use of modern birth control, is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. [137]