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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question. Having sex can lead to pregnancy. Therefore, unless one didn’t know they had sex, how is a pregnancy a surprise?[/quote]

Sometimes, contraceptives fail.[/quote]

Not at the rate as these “surprise” pregnancies. [/quote]

How can you determine the rate of surprise on an anonymous message board with three pages? By posters divided by views?  Do  you account for people online who are not clicking the thread, because they do not GAF?

- reader of thread who has not responded[/quote]

I remember awhile back someone posted an article with graphs that showed the failure rate on contraceptives over 20 years. Since the failure rate is measure in percentage per year, when you take into account the number of years women are sexually active, the number of women who get pregnant even while on contraception is very high. [b]So like, if the pill has a failure rate of 2% per year, and you have 100 women, 2 will get pregnant each year. Over 20 years, that's 40 women out of the 100. Even over 10 years, that's 20 women.[/b]

I've known a LOT of women who got pregnant even while on BC, with an IUD, etc, including myself. Very weird how some people like to pass judgement, like all us women are just dying to trap a man  :roll: [/quote]

That’s why when I was on the pill we also used condoms.

Of course some people do get pregnant while using contraception but [b]it’s usually due to human error[/b] (condom was defective, BC pill was missed one day or taken at the wrong time, took antibiotics w BC pill and didn’t realize that effected protection, etc)  [/quote]

Some data for you. Almost 80% of Americans are overweight and almost 40% are obese and contraception is not tested on heavy women. Because fat impacts hormones, the medical community is now figuring out that one size fits all for birth control is not working well. Plan B has significant failure rates in heavy women. The etonogestrel implant is not fully efective for the prescribed 3 year. It is harder to place an IUD on an obese woman, so the failure is greater.  [/quote]

So sounds like obese women should use condoms…[/quote]

Yes. However, it's new information and the doctors are not informing overweight patients (80% of the population) that the prescribed BC has higher than normal failure rates. [/quote]

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