Access and Use of Contraception and Its Effects on Women’s Outcomes in the U.S.

Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have experienced dramatic changes in the ease and convenience of timing and limiting childbearing, ranging from the introduction of the birth control pill and the legalization of abortion

生育行为的变化几乎影响人类生存的方方面面。近五十年来，美国女性在生育时机把控与生育数量限制的便捷性上经历了翻天覆地的变革，这类变革始于口服避孕药（birth control pill）的推出与堕胎（abortion）的合法化。