The most important number regarding planned parenthood is your zip code. A contraceptive desert is a location with little to no access to contraceptives or planned parenthood clinics. This can cause a longer expected travel time to reach one, which leads to excess time off work, or multiple long planned trips of travel. *(Map picture) *
Disdavantages People of lower class tend to live in more contraceptive dry areas due to a lower cost of living. People of color who are sexually active are more likley to use inexpensive, less effective forms of birth control and contraceptives than their white counterparts.
19.5 million U.S. women of reproductive ages are in need of publicly-funded contraception and live in contraceptive deserts
1.6 million of these women live in a county without a single health care center offering the full services
23 states and the District of Columbia explicitly allow all minors to consent to contraceptive services