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- From: mcbeanb@brandonu.ca
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: CONTRACEPTIVE FAILURE RATES, NFP SUCCESS RATES
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.160758.2269@brandonu.ca>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 22:07:58 GMT
- References: <xbnng8=.ray@netcom.com> <1992Sep11.002747.28086@noao.edu>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <1992Sep11.002747.28086@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >
- > I've posted for you all I have on the matter, but I can tell you this, that
- > the _expectations_ of a couple using NFP do _change_ during the course of a
- > month as to whether participating in an act of intercourse will produce a
- > pregnancy. Certain times of the month they expect they will not get pregnant
- > if they have sex, and certain other times of the month they fully expect they
- > _will_ get pregnant if they have sex.
-
- So, you posted success rates, but not contraceptive success rates?
- too bad we couldn't access the contraceptive success rate. One might
- think that a couple in the study who accidentally got pregnant
- (either by having sex when they should have abstained or impregnating
- when they expected not to) might say that they actually wanted
- a pregnancy to occur to avoid embarrassment. Never know...
-
- Brian McBean - McBeanB@BrandonU.Ca
-