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For example, they claim the pill is in the high 90s, condoms high 90s, Depo high 90s...and now 54% of women who have an abortion were using something?
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May I suggest you read the entire report. The reason the number of 54% of women identfying use of birth control and still getting pregnant is important because the the majority of those pregnancies were teen pregnancies.
This fact lead to the discovery that while most of the women were using bith control...
(We need to remember there are more than three methods of bith control here... diaphrams, spermacide, sponges, rythm method, vasectomy, and the ones included above)
...many of these women were not properly educated on the most effective use of birth control. Too many had never talked to or been talked to by their parents or schools as to how to properly guard against pregnancy. Too many were taught that abstinence was the only way.... and they felt too emabrrased to go to anybody when they felt they had "failed" at abstinance, and then took advice from friends or siblings on birth control instead of doctors, nurses, educators or parents. Ending in the United States having the highest teen pregnancy rate of any developed nation.
It is however a credit to sex educators that this problem has been identified, and due to diligent work in the feild the rate of teen pregnancy has dropped 28% in the last ten years.