New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research

More than a quarter of pregnancies worldwide are unintended. Between 1995 and2000, nearly 700,000 women died and many more experienced illness, injury, anddisability as a result of unintended pregnancy. Children born from unplanned conceptionare at greater risk of low birth weight, of being abused, and of not receivingsufficient resources for healthy development. A wider range of contraceptive opt...