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Medicaid Programs in the South and Southwest Cover a Higher Share of Births Download Source Sonfield, A., Kost, K., Benson Gold, R., & Finer, L.B. (2011). The public cost of births resulting from unintended pregnancies: National and state-level estimates.
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