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Summary Of Policy Solutions For Unintended Pregnancy

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When it comes to solutions against teen and young adult pregnancy the article titled “Policy Solutions for Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy” written by Adam Thomas has many great solutions for helping to prevent pregnancy while also looking into research on the causes of unintended pregnancy and the impacts of pregnancy prevention policies. The author explains that unintended pregnancy is a widespread problem with far-reaching implications: almost half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and the women and children involved in these pregnancies are disproportionately likely to experience a range of negative outcomes (Thomas, 2012). The author of the article says there are three broad categories behind the high rate of unintended …show more content…

The most successful programs tend to emphasize sexual abstinence as the only true option while also educating teenagers and young adults about how to use various methods of contraception. Research shows that some of the best designed interventions produced reductions of 15 percent or more in rates of sexual activity and increases of 25 percent or more in rates of contraceptive use (Thomas, 2012). Although abstinence-only sex education programs are also designed to discourage teens from having risky sex. The majority of high-quality research literature on these programs suggests that they have little effect on the behavior of the individuals who participate in them (Thomas, 2012). Although abstinence only programs are good way to go because it teaches truly, 100 percent pregnancy avoidance, in today’s society abstinence seems to be a way of the past, for some at …show more content…

Family planning services are made available to low-income women via Medicaid and the eligibility for these services has been limited to women who are pregnant and to mothers whose incomes are below average. A recent and well-designed study by Economists Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland and Phil Levine of Wellesley College used quasi-experimental methods to explore the effect of expanded eligibility for subsidized family planning services in waiver states on women’s contraceptive use (Thomas, 2012). The authors concluded that these expansions resulted in a reduction of about 5 percent in the number of sexually active adult women who fail to use contraception at a given act of intercourse. They also found that the expanded family planning services produced reductions of about 4 percent in the number of births to teens and about 2 percent in the number of births to non-teens (Thomas,

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Research shows unintended pregnancies are associated with birth defects low birth weight, elective abortion, and maternal depression, reduced rates of breastfeeding and increased risk of physical violence during pregnancy (10 Colorado winnable battles). Teen mothers are more likely to drop out from high school and not earn high school diploma. Avoiding unwanted pregnancy helps to reduce social and economic costs that are expenditure on health care. Every $ 1.00 invested in publicly funded family planning saves 7.09 in Medicaid. Colorado has now more than 40 % drop in teen pregnancy because of CDPHE family planning initiative that provided services for more than 30,000 for low or no

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It is also important that we provide accurate and proven sexual classes to our students. More than 80% of Americans believe that a form of sexual education should be taught in schools.5 The majority of these people believe that this education should be focused on various forms of birth control. Currently the federal government provides funds for these evidence-based types of education through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative and the Personal Responsibility Education Program. I will support programs that seek to expand funding for programs that teach a variety of birth control methods

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Medicaid managed care offers members a chance to choose a medicaid program that is more equlivalently relevant to their lifestyles. It focuses primarily on preventional health care and provides members with an enviornment in which they could be stable, as well as, cared for. In the article by Mary Caffrey titled “Kaiser Report: Medicaid Managed Care Policies Can Limit Access to Long-Acting Contraception”, she elaborates on her findings in the Kaiser Reports, including their findings as well. She analyzes how medicaid managed care policies can limit the access to long-acting contraceptives, ultimately affecting low-income women.

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Some solutions have been proposed in order to inform and teach teens about getting pregnant. Teenage pregnancy programs are important to show the outcomes of an unplanned pregnancy. These programs should be studied to ensure that they are used in the correct manner, and so that teens understand the consequences of having a child. One way of making sure is to talk with the teens themselves. Ask what they think about sex, and how it is portrayed in their school life, by their friends, in their families, and in the media.

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Professor Ross Government 2306 8 February 2015 Is Abstinence-only education the correct approach for Texas? Owning one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies in the Union, Texas has an abstinence only approach in sexual education to try to reduce pregnancies? In addition to this, Texas ranks first as being the top spender in sexual education, but can’t get solidified results out of its spending. Texas doesn’t teach anything about contraception, how the Texas Department of State Health Services has said that the mission of the program is to delay sexual actions among teenagers until they are old enough, and the use of abstinence only education to protect children from explicit content only to find out in their own way leads to curiosity

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In an article written by Danielle Paquette, a writer for The Washington Post, she wrote in her Washington Post article, that, “The CBO, congressional budget office, a nonpartisan watchdog, estimates defunding Planned Parenthood, which serves roughly 2.6 million women, would lead to more unplanned births as patients lost access to birth control. Medicaid would cover some of those births, the report asserts, and some of those children would qualify for Medicaid and other welfare programs” (What Happens if Congress Ends Funding). So, even if this is an estimation would you want to risk

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I found out about the Affordable Care Act while I was volunteering at Planned Parenthood. I was so excited because the new law meant I would be able to have health insurance again. It was very easy to enroll online, and I was able to find a perfect plan that fits my needs and my budget, and I can use it at Planned Parenthood”("Planned Parenthood"). She was able to find a source of insurance that was affordable and covered her healthcare needs. Statistics show that “83% of women and men who use Planned Parenthood are under the age of 20, 79% whose incomes are at or below 150% of the federal poverty level, and 75% of people receive treatment for unintended pregnancies”("Planned Parenthood").

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Throughout the past few years, the organization Planned Parenthood has gone through an overabundance of controversy and fabrications. Planned Parenthood is one of the world’s largest healthcare providers, offering sexual education and reproductive health care to over five million women and men worldwide every year. The majority of the group’s opposition contests it for the notion that they provide unwarranted and immoral abortion procedures. However, only 3% of Planned Parenthood’s services are abortion procedures. The rest of the the organization’s amenities include STI/STD testing, cervical cancer screening, breast exams, Pap tests, and more immensely crucial healthcare facilities for the men and women of America.

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