Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health
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Perspect Sex Reprod Health · Mar 2010
Repeat unintended, unwanted and seriously mistimed childbearing in the United States.
The high level of unintended fertility in the United States is a serious public health issue. Whether unintended fertility occurs across the population or is concentrated among a subset of women who experience multiple unintended births is unclear. ⋯ Repeat unintended fertility is common, especially among black women, who may differ from other groups in their contraceptive and fertility decisions as well as in their access to and ability to afford family planning services.