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They Say – Pulling Out Is The Same As A Condom
According to the June issue of Contraception magazine, there isn’t that much difference between the “withdrawl method” of birth control and using a condom. Withdrawl is “almost as effective as the male condom — at least when it comes to pregnancy prevention.” I won’t get into the various hair splitting that the researchers offer. B...
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Parents Enraged By Emergency Contraception Commercial
British parents are up in arms about a commercial for Levonelle, an over-the-counter emergency contraception pill. After the commercial was aired on three TV channels, hundreds of parents called radio shows to express their outrage. "Even though it was shown after 9pm my teenage daughters were watching,” one father said. “The worst thing is...
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They Say: Hard Times, More Pregnancies
The economy has caused its share of hardships for sure. It's time throw accidental pregnancies onto the pile. A new survey of more than 1,000 women that was commissioned by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found the recession has forced many women to give up prescription birth control due to expense or loss of health insur...
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Vatican To Women: The Pill Pollutes Environment, His Testes
Sometimes being a Catholic is all about ducking your head in shame and saying, "this is not my life." Because the boys in the Vatican - you know the ones, they don't have sex - have come out with another decree about the woman's body. This time, it's the way our contraceptive pill is harming everyone else, and men worst of all. As if we didn'...
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Eww… Groping Santa Used To Promote Morning After Pill
It's no surprise that there's always a mini baby boom in August and September - products of the Christmas Shag. All that champagne and good cheer goes to one's head and next thing you know, Adam from accounts is looking like a worthy contender for your babydaddy. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has put out a creepy new ad, above, to help...
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Scouts in the UK Really, Really Prepared
From the Guardian:"Scouts will for the first time will be given sexual health advice and may be issued with condoms to prevent unprotected sex, under guidelines to be issued today by the Scout Association.In a new interpretation of the scout motto Be Prepared, visits to sexual health clinics will also be included. Read more...
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Woman on Pill Conceives Identical Triplets
The chances of getting pregnant while on the birth control pill are about 1 to 2 percent--this is actually not an insignificant percentage, when you consider that about 2 women out of 100 on the pill will get pregnant. But the chances of having identical triplets are laughably minuscule: 200 million to one.So, the odds of having both of these...
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