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Lecture Notes

A typical American woman who desires two children spends about 5 years pregnant, postpartum, or trying to become pregnant and 30 years trying to avoid pregnancy. Over the course of this time, her contraceptive needs will change.

Of the 62 million women in the United States of a childbearing age, ages 15 through 44, 38% do not need contraceptives because they are sterile, pregnant, postpartum, trying to become pregnant, or abstinent. Approximately 62% of the remaining women are at risk for unintended pregnancy and must use some method of contraception. This slide shows the breakdown of those figures.

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