Preventing unintended pregnancy in Mississippi Issue brief (Center for Mississippi Health Policy) Contraception -- economics Pregnancy, Unplanned Although it has been almost 60 years since the advent of the oral birth control pill and the development of a variety of forms of contraception, more than half of pregnancies among Mississippi women are unintended. Unintended pregnancy is associated with women prematurely leaving education and employment, as well as pre-term births and low birthweight babies, all of which create financial burdens for families and taxpayers. Jackson, MS : Center for Mississippi Health Policy, May 2018 Center for Mississippi Health Policy, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101744679-pdf 101744679 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101744679 English Mississippi United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0