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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also was religiously taking birth control correctly, same time every day, and got pregnant at 38. BC is not 100% effective even with perfect use. Being AMA didn't work out for not getting pregnant either.

She seems like a smart girl and a good mom. I hope things work out for her. I do think abortion should be easier to obtain. She was not in a good position to have a baby. [/quote]

Birth Control isn't 100%, but most "unplanned" pregnancies aren't from situations where people were using birth control 100%. There is a segment of my family that is fairly typical rural poor. Most of them had children very young. None were using birth control at the time, and they consider all their pregnancies are unplanned, just something that happened.

If we separated out actual birth control failures and considered those unplanned, and separated them from people who used a condom once in a blue moon or took the pill almost randomly and labeled those as "not using prevention" we would see a huge difference in the number of "unplanned" pregnancies, because many of them would suddenly be categorized under "didn't use prevention."[/quote]

I agree, and I will add I would really like to see a shift away from the pill as the default birth control method, particularly for teens. The pill works when used correctly, taking it every day at the same time, with no other factors like taking antibiotics as well. Even then it has a failure rate, but that rate skyrockets with user error. I would like long term "set it and forget it" birth control options like the IUD or Implanon to be used more widely. I think relying on the pill, particularly when it is the only form of birth control used and you really, really shouldn't be having a baby (like a teen) is not good enough. There is too much room to mess it up, and the consequences are dire. I have smart, highly educated married friends who swear they have had all 3 of their kids because the pill didn't work, I don't trust it alone without a second method like a condom for teenagers. [/quote]

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