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From: wine@homxa.UUCP (J.GORDON)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Who's Life Anyway?
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Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 17:07:23 EDT
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>> 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.