My wife used birth control pills for 25 years without a single unplanned pregnancy. They work if you take them.
The success rate for married couples is very good if you don’t want to have a kid. As soon as you get to first date, second date, one night stand, etc. the statistics plunge.
The birth-control pill failure rate isn’t from missing a day of pills. In fact, many women can’t get pregnant for months after quitting them. It’s from the fact that many women’s simply don’t work the way the pill manufacturers would like them to. So whereas condoms inevitably fail eventually, yes, many women use the pill for a lifetime without them failing... that they know of.
As I mentioned, however, modern birth control pills usually use minimal doses of estrogen to avoid the serious, nasty complications of estrogen, and maintain the effectiveness by adding progesterone which can prevent the babies from being able to integrate into the uterine lining successfully. The drug companies deny this happens ... progesterone also makes conception more difficult ... but despite the progesterone, 9% of the time a pregnancy is noticed. Since the effects of progesterone also certainly make the uterine lining less hospitable to conceptions, we can know that some of the babies must fail at integration. We just don’t know how often, because no studies have ever been performed, since the notion of deliberately causing conception so you can see if the baby gets killed is abhorrent to the most militant of pro-aborts, and those people don’t want to know the answer.
A close friend, otherwise healthy as a horse, just had a severe stroke at age 45. Her only risk factor? Birth control pill for 20 years.
Birth control pills are human pesticide. Any other class of drug with the horrendous side effect profile of the pill would have been pulled from the market decades ago, and their manufacturers sued out of existence.
Men would never accept the level of risk they expect women to take from taking the pill. Does that make men jerks, or women stupid?
{My wife used birth control pills for 25 years without a single unplanned pregnancy. They work if you take them.}
Not always. Some medications interfere with BC pills, and many doctors are lax in reading their PDRs. I personally know 2 women who were “religious” about their BC meds and got pregnant anyway. There is a failure rate and it is caused by more than just forgetfulness.
You’re very right.
Does she have breast cancer now? That’s the result of Birth Control pills.
What time frame are you talking about? Birth control pills were effective for me for years as well, but I got my tubes tied in 1989 so my experience is not recent. I do not believe pills today are as effective as they were years ago. I know too many otherwise reliable people that claim the pill failed them. I think something is going on with the various forms of birth control, to me they don’t seem to be as effective as they were years ago.