1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Access to Birth Control Act . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Family planning is basic health care for women. Access to contraception helps women prevent unintended pregnancy and control the timing and spacing of planned births. (2) As a result of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ), 62,400,000 women now have coverage of the full range of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods without cost sharing. (3) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act saved women $1,400,000,000 on birth control pills alone in 2013. (4) Nearly 2/3 of women of reproductive age are currently using a contraceptive method. (5) Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included family planning in its published list of the Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the 20th Century, the United States still has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies among industrialized nations. (6) Each year, 2,800,000 pregnancies, nearly half of all pregnancies, in the United States are unintended, and nearly half of unintended pregnancies end in abortion. (7) Access to contraceptives at no cost has been found to contribute to significantly lower rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion. (8) Women who do not use contraception, women who have gaps in contraception, and women who use contraception inconsistently or incorrectly account for 95 percent of unintended pregnancies in the United States. (9) Women rely on prescription contraceptives for a range of medical purposes in addition to birth control, such as regulation of cycles and endometriosis. (10) The Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency contraception as safe and effective in preventing unintended pregnancy and has approved over-the-counter access to some forms of emergency contraception for all individuals, regardless of age. If taken soon after unprotected sex or primary contraceptive failure, emergency contraception can