Because half of all pregnancies in South Carolina are unintended.

Because this costs taxpayers nearly $200 million a year.

Because unintended pregnancy compromises the health, development and economic stability of women and children.

And because all of this is preventable.

Choose Well intends to reduce unintended pregnancy 25 percent by 2021, saving taxpayers an estimated $50 million a year.

This is being accomplished by offering all women information and affordable access to eight different methods of contraception.

We are in no way funded by government entities and have nothing to do with abortion.

The initiative is backed by decades of evidence showing that planned pregnancies are good for the individuals, families and communities that comprise our state.