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- Subject: Re: More questions for Suzanne or other pro-life parent
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.114330.2155@brandonu.ca>
- From: mcbeanb@brandonu.ca
- Date: 22 Aug 92 11:43:30 CST
- References: <1992Aug21.040932.17501@watson.ibm.com> <1992Aug21.192206.10405@noao.edu>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <1992Aug21.192206.10405@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- > From article <1992Aug21.040932.17501@watson.ibm.com>, by Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>:
- >> In <1992Aug20.223004.13850@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >>>
- >>> Natural Family Planning is AS effective in avoiding pregnancy as that
- >>> popular contraceptive the "pill" for married regular participants in sex.
- >>
- >> That's comparing the "ideal" numbers, right?
- >
- > Not at all.
- >
- >
- >> And it turns out to be a lot
- >> less effective if you compare the "real life" numbers, right?
- >
- > Not at all.
- >
- > Shall I post the studies and statistics again?
-
- Please do, or at least email them to me, thanks.
-
- >>> Even moreso for a pre-teenage virgin.
- >>
- >> Even *prayer* is effective in avoiding pregnancy for virgins. :-)
- >
- > That was my point. NFP is very effective for frequent participants in
- > sex, and even moreso for a pre-teenage virgin. There is no need to hand
- > her a condom as my, ahem, esteemed correspondant had implied.
-
- Actually I think Mr. Margolis' point was that virgins haven't had sex,
- so they don't need contraception. Note the smiley!
-
- If that virgin had decided to have sex, then s/he should have a condom.
- Ask any doctor with his head on straight (well, if you can't find one
- then ask mine, and he will answer in his perfect Scottish accent,
- "USE CONDOMS!" (and he'd say this for any case whatsoever really, though
- might make exception for the longstanding completely monogomous relationship
- in which the partners use the pill)).
-
- Brian McBean - McBeanB@BrandonU.Ca
-