https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/uoca-gat050421.php
News Release 5-May-2021
Colorado family planning initiative closes women's graduation gap by 14%
University of Colorado at Boulder
When access to free and low-cost birth control goes up, the percentage of young women who leave high school before graduating goes down by double-digits, according to a new CU Boulder-led study published May 5 in the journal Science Advances.
The study, which followed more than 170,000 women for up to seven years, provides some of the strongest evidence yet that access to contraception yields long-term socioeconomic benefits for women. It comes at a time when public funding for birth control is undergoing heated debate, and some states are considering banning certain forms.
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