Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxa!wine From: wine@homxa.UUCP (J.GORDON) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <994@homxa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 17:07:23 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.994 Posted: Sat Jul 6 17:07:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 05:42:58 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP>, <710@ihlpg.UUCP> <983@homxa.UUCP> <728@ihlpg.UUCP> <976@mhuRe: Who's Life Anyway? Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 >> As I understand it (and what I was working from) the pill runs about >> 99.9% success. Anyone want to look it up/correct me? >> Jean Marie Diaz > > If this figure is correct, then a woman who is on the pill and who has >intercourse every other night has one chance in six of becoming pregnant >in any given year. > >Jeff Sonntag > A 99.9% reliability for the pill means that if a woman is using the pill and is sexually active, she has a .1% chance of getting pregnant in a given year, NOT each time she has sex.