; Whereas in economically developing countries, public health experts estimate that access to contraceptives would result in 76,000,000 fewer unintended pregnancies, 26,000,000 fewer unsafe abortions, and 186,000 fewer maternal deaths; Whereas in the United States due to discrimination, significant racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities exist in sexual and reproductive health, particularly in maternal mortality and morbidity and infant mortality with Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native women two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women; Whereas contraceptive choices are unduly influenced by structural racism, gender discrimination, and socioeconomic barriers; Whereas research shows that both historically and today, medical racism has resulted in experiments on communities of color, such as the misleading and eugenics-based birth control trials on Puerto Rican women in the 1950s and the development of modern gynecology through the experimentation and exploitation of enslaved Black women beginning in the 1840s, has contributed to persistent feelings of mistrust among Black women regarding their ability to access high-quality sexual and reproductive health care; Whereas effective contraception has been shown to be an important strategy to maintaining and improving mental health and well-being for women and other individuals who have the capacity to get pregnant; Whereas planning, delaying, and spacing births helps people achieve their education, career, and life goals; Whereas young women with access to the pill before age 21 graduated from college in significantly higher numbers than did women of the same era who came of age before the pill was available to them; Whereas children born to women with access to United States federally funded family planning programs, which increase access to affordable contraception and family planning services, were more likely to complete at least 12, 13, and 16 years of schooling, and had 2-percent higher family incomes as adults