Why Should I Care?
By improving access to family planning services and birth control, we empower young women to have children only when they’re ready. That’s better for them. But it’s also better for our next generation of babies -- and for the social fabric of our state as a whole. In the process, we’ll save millions of taxpayer dollars. In fact, according to the Guttmacher Institute, in Iowa, publicly-funded planning clinic services avert 20,000 unintended pregnancies and 8,000 abortions each year, saving approximately $88 million annually in Medicaid costs. In addition, for every $1 spent on family planning, we save nearly $4 in social services and maternal and child health care.