Teen pregnancies get the headlines, but Self wanted this story to examine a related health issue that's rarely discussed: The majority of unplanned pregnancies occur among single young women, not teenagers. The causes and consequences are less understood than they are with adolescents. It's easy to say that teen pregnancy is a public health problem, but much more difficult to frame the debate about unplanned pregnancy among women in their 20s. In fact, after a woman turns 20, accidental pregnancies are even glamorized or seen as romantic. Yet many of the health outcomes – to infants and their mothers – are often the same. The article examined both the human cost and complexity of the issue.
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