Poor Women Are More Likely To Have Unplanned Pregnancies. What Gives?

Income Inequality Also Affects Unplanned Pregnancies (New Study)

“ Poor women are five times as likely as affluent women to have an unintended birth, new research from the Brookings Institution shows — and that drives inequality.

The difference boils down to contraceptive use, not sexual activity. There is no “sex gap” by income, researchers emphasized. Promiscuity doesn’t vary along class lines. Access to the most reliable forms of birth control, however, does.” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), Hannah Cranston (https://twitter.com/hannahcranston_) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.