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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]

Poster you are responding to, and I agree. The thing is, I started having (safe) sex at age 18, with my long time boyfriend. Other than twice when I planned to get pregnant, the pill worked for me without fail for 20 years. The problem is, millions of people are on the pill, some like me, for many years. So that means even a failure rate of 1% means over a decade or two or three, hundreds of thousands of women get pregnant. I wish we would acknowledge that more. The NY Times had a great article on it a few years back but people hear the pill is very effective and blame women for getting pregnant on it.

Anyway, the good new is that IUDs are on the rise and now they have a few on the market aimed for teens and young women who have never had a baby (most people don't know this, but many obgyns discourage IUDs for women who haven't given birth yet. My very good friend never wanted kids, and wanted off the pill when she turned 40. Her dr. discouraged the mirena because she hadn't given birth. But now there are more options, in the last 5 years).

The problem is that traditionally IUDs have been very costly. With the Affordable Care Act, more women have access to them but not everyone does. I'm guessing this young woman didn't have decent insurance. And she was probably growing up in a town where she didn't learn these options. Given where she grew up, I would be shocked if it were even close to an option for her.[/quote]

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