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21 million women live in U.S. counties with limited birth control access
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Newly released data from two reproductive research organizations indicates that over 21 million women in the United States reside in counties lacking adequate access to birth control. The findings are compiled in a newly launched interactive map detailing both the availability and demand for low-cost or free contraception across individual counties.
WHY IT MATTERS
This interactive data highlights geographic disparities in reproductive healthcare access, revealing that millions of American women currently lack adequate resources for low-cost contraception.
EXCLUSIVE EMBARGOED 9/16 Data shared exclusively with NPR shows more than 21 million women in the U.S. need birth control that they can't access. Two reproductive research organizations, Guttmacher and Power to Decide, have created an interactive map that shows county-by-county the availability and the need for low or no-cost contraception.
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