Were nearly half of all pregnancies in hillbilly Oregon unintended?

[Oregon The Welfare Moocher State]

In honor of National Women's Health Week, Oregon Rep. Carolyn
Tomei, D-Milwaukie, talked up the benefits of a health
initiative that encourages primary care providers to ask women
whether they wish to get pregnant within the year or not.

The goal is to provide prenatal care to women who want a baby
and contraception options to those who do not. Unintended
pregnancies stress out family finances as well as taxpayers, who
pick up the cost for half of all births in Oregon, Tomei said on
the floor of the Oregon House.

"In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were
unintended. Fifty-three percent of all deliveries were paid for
by Medicaid," she said.

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