| Nearly 1/2 of all unintended pregnancies occur among women using a contraceptive method. |
|  | | Nearly 1/2 of all unintended pregnancies occur among women using a contraceptive method. |
| Only 22% of Wisconsin health plans cover all FDA approved prescription contraception, but more than 97% cover Viagra. |
| 85% of women ages 20-44 will use oral contraceptives at some point in their lives. |
| The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) conclude that if EC were available to all women in the U.S., 1.2M unintended pregnancies could be avoided and the annual number of abortions would be reduced by 800,000. |
| The Department of Employeed Trust Funds estimates that their increased costs of covering contraceptives would be a meager $0.14 per member per month. |
| Not covering contraceptives in group health plans actually costs employers 15-17% more than providing contraceptive coverage. |
| Every public dollar spent on family planning services saves $3 in Medicaid costs for prenatal and newborn care. |
| There are 634,250 women in Wisconsin in need of contraceptive services and/or supplies. Of these, 294,440 women - including 95,340 teenagers - are in need of publicly supported contraceptive services. |
| 88% of voters believe that all men and women should be able to decide the number and spacing of their children. |
| 74% of voters believe that the way to make abortions rare is to make sure that women and teens have access to family planning and sex education that includes information about birth control and abstinence. |
| 77% of Wisconsin voters support medically accurate, age appropriate sex education |
| 71% of Wisconsin voters support access to emergency contraception. (81% support access for survivors of rape and incest) |
| 67% of Wisconsin voters support preserving family planning funding. |
| 73% of privately insured adults support full contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, even if it would increase their costs by $5 per month |
| Pregnant women who have peridontal disease may be 7 times more likely to have a baby that is born too early and too small. |
| The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Obstericians and Gynecologists (ACOG) support widespread access and availability of emergency contraception (EC) as a means of reducing unintended pregnancies. |
| The decrease in the teen birth rate between 1995 and 2002 is directly responsible for the 68% decrease in the number of children under age six living with single mothers. |
| Each year cervical cancer kills about 3,700 women. In 2006, over 10,000 women will be newly diagnosed with cervical cancer. |
| Every year nearly one million American women deliver babies without receiving adequate medical attention. |
| Babies born to mothers who received no prenatal care are 3 times more likely to be born at low birth weight, and 5 times more likely to die, than those whose mothers received prenatal care. |
| Publicly funded family planning clinics in Wisconsin avert 35,200 unintended pregnancies and 17,600 abortions every year. |
| The US has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world - nearly 850.000 teen pregnancies annually. |
| Teen childbearing costs US taxpayers $7 billion each year in direct costs associated with health care, foster care, criminal justice and public assistance. |
| The annual treatment of an indivdiual with HIV is $18,300 |
| Emergency contraception (the morning after pill) is NOT the same as RU-486 (the abortion pill). |
| In 2005, 47% of all high school students reported having sexual intercourse. |
| Only 1/3 of Wisconsin emergency departments are unconditionally providing emergency contraception (EC) to rape victims on-site. |
| 34% of teenage girls get pregnant at least once before they reach age 20, resulting in more than 820,000 teen pregnancies a year. |
| Almost 1/2 of all teenage mothers and over 3/4 of unmarried teen mothers began receiving welfare within 5 years of the birth of their first child. |
| Minors are almost twice as likely to have low-birth weight babies. The hospital delivery charges for very low-birth weight babies averaged $75,000 in 2004 compared with $1,200 for babies considered healthy weights. |
| Wisconsin has the 10th highest Chlamydia rate in the nation and the 8th highest teen incidence of Chlamydia, which is the highest in the Midwest |
| 7% of U.S. women at risk of unintended pregnancy who do not practice contraception account for almost half of the country’s unintended pregnancies |
| Wisconsin received $4,080,399 in federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in 2005 |
| 15 million unmarried women were not registered to vote in 2004, and nearly 20 million unmarried women did not cast ballots on Election Day. |
| 46% of all voting-age women are unmarried, and 55% of all women not registered to vote are unmarried. |
| If unmarried women voted at the same rate as married women, over 6 million more voters would have gone to the polls in 2004. |
| CDC estimates the health care costs of untreated chlamydia to be more than $2 billion annually in the US, while screening & treatment programs cost $175 million annually. |
| Every $1 spent toward Chlamydia screening & treatment will save $12 in complications that could result from untreated Chlamydia. |
| Teen births cost U.S. Government $9.1B in 2004 |
| 62 million American women are in their reproductive years, between the ages of 15 to 44. 7 out of 10 of these women are sexually active and do not want to become pregnant. |
75% of the drop in teen pregnancies during the early 1990’s was attributed to improved contraceptive use.
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| More than 9 in 10 teachers in America believe that students should be taught about contraception, but 1 in 4 are prohibited from doing so. |
| The federal government provides $0 for proven abstinence-first (comprehensive) sex education. Yet, over the past 10 years, Congress has provided over $1B to medically-inaccurate and unproven abstinence-only programs. |
| More than 9 out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex. |
| Women on average make 75% of what men make in Wisconsin. |
| Nearly 3/4 of the US population between the ages of 15 and 49 have been infected with one HPV strain at some time. |
| Teen childbearing in Wisconsin costs state taxpayers $156 million in 2004. |
| On average, it costs $5,133 per birth for a child born to a teen mother 17 and younger. |
| In Wisconsin, 75% of pregnant teens rely on Medicaid for prenatal care and delivery. |
| 78% of sexually active Catholic women report having used birth control pills. |
| Less than 3% of sexually active Catholic women use church approved methods as their primary form of family planning. |
| 88% of Catholics are in favor of public schools providing sex education. |
| 1 in 3 girls in the U.S. gets pregnant by age 20 |
The daughters of teen mothers are 3 times more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
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| Nearly 1/2 of all births in Wisconsin were paid for by the state's Medicaid program in 2005 |
| 67% of U.S. adults favor allowing public schools to provide contraceptives to students. |
| The majority (61%) of U.S. women who have abortions are already mothers, more than half of whom have two or more children. |
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