A report by Guttmacher Institute postulates that expanding Medicaid coverage of contraceptives would reduce dramatically the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. The report by Rachel Benson Gold, ‘Rekindling Efforts to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy,’cites research by the Guttmacher Institute showing that there is a growing disparity between upper- and middle-class women and poor women’s ability to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Which states that poor women are more likely to have unplanned pregnancy as compared to higher income women. ‘Expanding Medicaid eligibility would be tremendously effective in restarting the nation’s stalled efforts to reduce unplanned pregnancy and, thereby, the need for abortion,’ said Gold, the Guttmacher Institute’s Director of Policy Analysis.
