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28 Million Women Face Unwanted Pregnancy
By hernews
Created May 13 2008 - 8:05am

Reuters

CHICAGO - Each year, half of American women who would rather not get pregnant will have an unplanned pregnancy, often because they failed to use their contraceptive properly or forgot to use it at all, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

As a result, 28 million women in the United States are at risk for an unintended pregnancy, according to the study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute in New York.

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