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Edited by Sarah S. Brown and Leon Eisenberg. 380 pp. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1995. $29.95. ISBN 0-309-05230-0.

The Institute of Medicine appointed a committee to study the causes, consequences, and prevention of unintended pregnancy. This book presents the committee's findings and recommendations.

The committee defines unintended pregnancies as both unwanted and mistimed pregnancies. It concludes that almost 60 percent of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended (estimated as 3.1 of 5.4 million pregnancies in 1987, half among women using some form of reversible contraception, however well, and half among the 7 percent of women using no contraception). Unintended pregnancy in the United States is not just a problem among teenagers, the poor, or minorities. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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