Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway? Message-ID: <977@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 14:49:46 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.977 Posted: Tue Jul 2 14:49:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:23:02 EDT References: <556@bgsuvax.UUCP> <283@vaxwaller.UUCP>, <710@ihlpg.UUCP> <983@homxa.UUCP> <728@ihlpg.UUCP> <976@mhuxt.UUCP> <742@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 > > .01% contraceptive failure? I thought it was higher than this, but > > I really don't know. Anyone out there know the failure rate for the most > > common methods? > > 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. Those of you who think abortions are needed only by people who just don't bother to use birth control might want to think again. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "Well I've been burned before, and I know the score, so you won't hear me complain. Are you willing to risk it all, or is your love in vain?"-Dylan