Supporting All Patients With Unintended Pregnancies: Implications for Health Equity

Unintended pregnancies can negatively affect financial, health, educational, and social outcomes. Reproductive justice is a health equity imperative that entails the right to have or not have children, and to parent children with autonomy and personal agency.1 Fully supporting patients who have unintended pregnancies is increasingly urgent, especially for those with marginalized identities. A previously published American Family Physician (AFP) article describes evidence-based management of unintended pregnancies for family physicians.2 We aim to highlight the implications for health equity.