Bob talked about women’s reproductive rights and their connection to the environment on May 30th on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday.
Listen to the interview here or learn more at the Science Friday site.

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“Oops, I’m pregnant.”

Even in today’s age of safe and effective modern contraception, women in every society get pregnant when that wasn’t the plan. It’s a simple point I explore in More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want. In the wealthy and health-obsessed United States, for example, 49 percent of conceptions result in “oops” pregnancies. The figure for the world as a whole is estimated at around 38 percent. I suspect that women in many countries under-report unintended pregnancies and that the real proportion is even higher.

Interestingly, the estimated number of annual unintended pregnancies worldwide is almost the same as

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