Cynthia Beavin (she/they) is a Sociology PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. She previously worked for over four years at the Guttmacher Institute, contributing to projects related to abortion and unintended pregnancy incidence globally, barriers to sexual and reproductive health care in Iowa and Arizona, and trends in adolescent sexual behavior. With interests in medical sociology, reproduction, and the sociology of knowledge, Cynthia’s research focuses on a reexamination of what we think we know about abortion and unintended pregnancy. The SFP Emerging Scholars grant will support the first stage of Cynthia’s doctoral dissertation research about the meaning and significance of unintended pregnancy and abortion in expert discourses in medicine, policy, and research. Survey researchers, demographers, and public health professionals have acknowledged the challenges of measuring unintended pregnancy for years, and social science researchers and clinicians have become increasingly critical of the unintended framework’s ability to address population- and individual-level health outcomes. Cynthia will collect and analyze academic research articles, government reports, policy briefs, and clinical guidelines that discuss unintended pregnancy to document how and why it became such a foundational measure of population health and reproductive autonomy. This genealogical account of unintended pregnancy will challenge current assumptions about why reducing unintended pregnancy is given high priority in policy and practice while abortion access receives far less attention.