The post-revolutionary population control policy and the availability of contraceptives through urban health clinics and rural health houses (Salehi-Isfahani, Abbasi-Shavazi and Hosseini-Chavosi, 2010) have been instrumental in the rise in the contraceptive prevalence rate from around 49 per cent in 1989 to around 72 per cent in 2000. The total fertility rate also declined from around 7 children per women in 1980 to around 1.8 children in 2011 (Abbasi-Shavazi, McDonald and Hosseini-Chavosi, 2009, Abbasi-Shavazi and Hosseini-Chavoshi, 2014). In response to the low level of fertility, there has been a population policy reversal towards a pro-natalist approach in recent years. The proponents of the new policy argue that contraception has had a strong impact on fertility decline and, thus, contraceptives should not be provided freely under the new pro-natalist policy (Abbasi-Shavazi and Hosseini-Chavoshi, 2014, Roudi, 2012). This may lead to an increase in the level of unintended pregnancies and abortion.