Abortion in the United States

===Birth control effects===
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Increased access to birth control has been statistically linked to reductions in the abortion rate.<ref name="ObGyn 2012 No-Cost Contraception">{{cite journal | title = Preventing Unintended Pregnancies by Providing No-Cost Contraception | last1=Peipert|first1=Jeffrey F.|last2=Madden|first2=Tessa| last3=Allsworth| first3=Jenifer E. |last4=Secura|first4=Gina M.|journal = Obstetrics & Gynecology | volume = 120 | issue = 6 | pages=1291–1297|date=December 2012| doi=10.1097/AOG.0b013e318273eb56 | pmid=23168752| quote=Conclusion: We noted a clinically and statistically significant reduction in abortion rates, repeat abortions, and teenage birth rates. Unintended pregnancies may be reduced by providing no-cost contraception and promoting the most effective contraceptive methods. | pmc=4000282}}</ref><ref name="Guttmacher 2016 Drop in Unintended">{{cite web |last=Dreweke |first=Joerg|date=March 18, 2016 |title=New Clarity for the U.S. Abortion Debate: A Steep Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Is Driving Recent Abotion Declines|url=https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2016/03/new-clarity-us-abortion-debate-steep-drop-unintended-pregnancy-driving-recent-abortion|access-date=January 22, 2021|publisher=Guttmacher Institute}}</ref><ref name="Brookings 2019 Access to Contraception">{{cite web |last1=Guyot |first1=Katherine| last2=Sawhill | first2=Isabel V. | date=July 29, 2019 |title=Reducing access to contraception won't reduce the abortion rate|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/07/29/reducing-access-to-contraception-wont-reduce-the-abortion-rate/|access-date=January 22, 2021|publisher=[[Brookings Institution]] | quote=While the new rules were motivated by opposition to abortion, the state experiences we highlight in our paper show that increasing access to highly effective methods of contraception (and thus preventing unintended pregnancies) is a more effective way to reduce abortion rates. Barriers to contraceptive access will impede further progress in reducing unintended pregnancy rates, will raise government costs for Medicaid and other social programs, and will lead to more women seeking an abortion. }}</ref> As an element of [[family planning]], birth control was federally subsidized for low income families in 1965 under President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s [[War on Poverty]] program. In 1970, Congress passed [[Title X]] to provide family planning services for those in need, and President [[Richard Nixon]] signed it into law. Funding for Title X rose from $6&nbsp;million in 1971 to $61&nbsp;million the next year, and slowly increased each year to $317&nbsp;million in 2010, after which it was reduced by a few percent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hhs.gov/opa/title-x-family-planning/about-title-x-grants/funding-history/index.html|date=April 4, 2019|website=U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |title=Title X Program Funding History |access-date=March 2, 2021}}</ref>

In 2011, the [[Guttmacher Institute]] reported that the number of abortions in the U.S. would be nearly two-thirds higher without access to birth control.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 2011|url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contraceptive_serv.html|title=Facts on Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services in the United States|publisher=[[Guttmacher Institute]]|access-date=March 2, 2021|archive-date=September 26, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926025834/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_contraceptive_serv.html}}</ref> In 2015, the [[Federation of American Scientists]] reported that federally mandated access to birth control had helped reduce teenage pregnancies in the U.S. by 44 percent, and had prevented more than 188,000 unintended pregnancies.<ref>{{Cite report|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45181.pdf|title=Family Planning Program Under Title X of the Public Health Service Act|last=Napili|first=Angela|date=October 15, 2018|access-date=May 4, 2020}}</ref>