Contraception - Some Numbers [April 1998; 50-3] A monthly newsletter about evidencebased health care; top source for such information on the net. http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band50/b50-3.html
Extractions: @import "../styles/advanced.css"; Skip navigation Many people accept that a contraceptive method is a bit like adverts seen for wood varnish on the TV - it does just what it says on the tin! We all accept that there will be some failures, but what are the relative failure rates for different methods? Bandolier has been digging for useful evidence on contraceptive methods. Evidence on failure rates is hard to come by. A series of estimates are summarised in a cost effectiveness paper [1], and the results are given in the Table both as the annual percentage of failure, and as the number of women (out of 10,000) who would become pregnant in one year using particular methods. Information on the combined oral contraceptive pill from a summary of clinical trials [2] is also given. Method Failure rate (%) Pregnancies per 10,000 women per year
Springfield News-Leader | Page Not Found Bush's Department of Justice issues its first medical guidelines for treating sexual assault victims â without any mention of emergency contraception. http://entertainment.news-leader.com/life/today/1231-Contracept-263399.html
Why Not Contraception Commenting on their guarded endorsement of contraception, TS Eliot wrote presciently But NFP and artificial contraception do not, strictly speaking, http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Issues/Contraception/contraception.html
Extractions: Teaching the Faith Why Not Contraception George Sim Johnston Humanae vitae than Calcutta or Shanghai. The challenge is to put the cultural coordinates back to where they were seventy years ago. Until 1930, not only did every Christian denomination teach that contraception is wrong, but even the mainstream of media and politics did not approve of it. The ubiquitous state laws against selling birth control devices were the work of Protestant, not Catholic, legislatures. When, at the Lambeth Conference in 1930, the Anglican Church became the first Christian body to change its mind about contraception, the Washington Post was as indignant as Pope Pius XI. It seemed self-evident to at least a plurality of Christians that the deliberate obstruction of the life-making potential of sex is gravely disordered. Sex, the most imperious of instincts, is always looking for opportunities to exploit, and this was provided by the Anglican bishops at Lambeth, who had previously condemned artificial birth control in 1908 and 1920. Commenting on their guarded endorsement of contraception, T. S. Eliot wrote presciently about subsequent pastoral experience: "… to allow that ‘each couple’ should take counsel only if perplexed in mind is almost to surrender the whole citadel of the Church. It is ten to one, considering the extreme disengenuity of humanity, which ought to be patent after so many thousand years, that only a very small minority will be "perplexed"; and in view of the words of the bishops it is ten to one that the honest minority which takes ‘competent advice’ (and I observe that the order of words is ‘
The Edith Stein Foundation Information supporting the hypothesis that the birth control pill and other forms of contraception are responsible for a wide range of medical and social problems affecting women. http://www.the-edith-stein-foundation.com
Extractions: Who Is Edith Stein? The Psychology of Contraception Theological Perspective Research Programs ... Search ESF Who We Are A New Vision For the last few years a new vision of woman has been unfolding - the evolving dream of Dr. Dominic Pedulla, the founding physician of The Edith Stein Foundation (ESF). Asked in 1994 to give a talk on heart disease for women, his preparatory research unexpectedly led to a foundational insight about women's health. Inspired by the deep psychological intuitions of the great feminist transcultural heroine and Saint, Edith Stein, Dr. Pedulla for the first time began to suspect contraception as the most important and overlooked factor in a host of medical and social conditions afflicting the modern woman. Contraception and The Heart For several years Dr. Pedulla observed that many young women often suffered from serious cardiac symptoms despite otherwise reassuring test results. These women were often profoundly distressed and suffered a great deal of anxiety. It was not until he began routinely asking about birth control practices that a causal connection began to be considered. Dr. Pedulla knows now from his own practice experience that all contraceptives - whether condoms, IUD's, pills, injections, or tubal ligation surgeries - are capable of causing this 'contraception syndrome.'
Extractions: At the Scarleteen boards, we get a lot of questions from teens who are wondering if there's anything to be done to avoid pregnancy after unprotected intercourse, whether it's from a broken condom or from not using a condom in the first place. Regardless of how it happened, there is something that can reduce the risk of pregnancy greatly as long as it's done within 100 hours of the unprotected sexual activity. ECPs act in exactly the same way as standard oral contraceptives, except that the dosage is much higher. Depending on when in your cycle you take them, ECPs can delay or prevent ovulation, inhibit transport of either the egg or sperm, prevent fertilization of the egg from occurring, or alter the lining of the uterus in such a way as to make implantation of a fertilized egg impossible. According to the American Medical Association, based on practice guidelines and information from the FDA and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the "effectiveness rate is likely to be at least a 75% reduction in the expected rate of pregnancy. For example, if 100 women have intercourse in the middle 2 weeks of their cycle, approximately 8 will become pregnant; with emergency contraception, this number is reduced to 2."
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Catholics For Contraception Catholics for contraceptionan initiative of Catholics for a Free Choiceis a leadership network Catholics in all 50 states who support public funding for http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/nobandwidth/English/contraception/contraceptio
Extractions: An almost universal consensus exists among governments, international institutions, the worlds religions, and the public: Responsible family planning includes the basic right of couples to decide freely the number and spacing of their children, and to have the information, education, and means to do so. That consensus includes the belief that couples, as moral agents, should be informed about and be able to voluntarily choose among the widest range of safe medical contraceptives and other methods, such as abstinence, that reduce the possibility of pregnancy. The official leadership of the Catholic church stands outside of this consensus. It continuesin Catholic schools and health care institutions, and in official pronouncementsto condemn the use of contraceptives as unnatural and sinful. Unfortunately, it is also increasingly active in opposing international and national public policies that would make contraceptives safer, more available, more effective, and a matter to be decided by individual conscience. Given these efforts by the Catholic hierarchy, it is critical that policy makers and others understand that broad support exists among Catholics for change in church teachings regarding contraception, and for public policies that respect individual conscience and promote the common good. Catholics for Contraceptionan initiative of Catholics for a Free Choiceis a leadership network Catholics in all 50 states who support public funding for family planning and a change in the churchs position on contraception.
UpToDate Patient Information: Contraception contraception or birth control is the use of a medication, device, The apparent failure of contraception may result from several factors, http://patients.uptodate.com/frames.asp?page=topic.asp&file=endo_hor/6023&title=
The Education Fund Of Family Planning Advocates Concerned about loss of reproductive health care (including abortion, sterilization, and contraception) from hospital mergers that impose religious rules on previously secular health care providers. http://www.mergerwatch.org/
Extractions: On Friday, August 26, the Federal Food and Drug Administration once again delayed its decision to make Plan B emergency contraception available over-the-counter for all women. The FDA had promised a decision on making Plan B available over-the-counter by September 1.The agency agreed that women 17 years of age and older could safely take the drug without a doctor's advice. However, they stated that girls 16 years of age and younger should only be given the drug with a doctor's prescription. A public comment period has been set to discuss the dual-label issues further. On August 4, New York Governor George Pataki vetoed the Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Act. The legislation would have increased the availability of emergency contraception to women by enabling pharmacists and nurse to dispense this safe and effective medication through collaborative agreements with physicians. EC will continue to be available through doctors' office and health centers. For more information on access to EC in pharmacies, visit www.go2ec.org
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Live By Choice Not Chance Female health web site providing information and advice on issues surrounding sexual health, contraception and relationships to women of all ages. http://www.femalelife.co.uk
Ann Rose's Ultimate Birth Control Links Links to family planning choices including abstinence, condoms, diaphragm, hormonal implants, injections, IUD, tubal sterilization, the Pill, emergency contraception, vasectomy and how to choose. http://www.ultimatebirthcontrol.com
Extractions: Ann Rose's Ultimate Birth Control Links Extensive links to as much information as possible for individuals of all ages to make informed decisions about sexual activity and potential childbearing. Each person's needs are different and an informed public is a healthier public. Unfortunately, birth control choice and usage, like all human risk taking behavior, is not perfect. If you're not yet sexually active, think long and hard before you take the plunge. If you are sexually active and don't want to be pregnant, use birth controland play it safer so you'll remain unpregnant, and disease-free. For more information, contact the nearest
Family Planning Advocates Of NYS Nonprofit advocacy organization promoting access to a full range of reproductive health services. Supports public funding of family planning, equitable insurance coverage for contraception, and emergency contraception for rape victims. http://www.fpaofnys.org/
Extractions: Family Planning Advocates of New York State is a non-profit statewide membership organization dedicated to protecting and expanding access to a full range of reproductive health services. We represent and are primarily funded by New York's Planned Parenthood affiliates, with additional support from member family planning clinics and dozens of sister organizations, as well as thousands of individual members across the state. With full-time, year round headquarters in Albany, we are actively engaged in policy analysis, legislative work, coalition building and educational efforts. We work with and support pro-choice Democrats and Republicans. FPA conducts field activities across New York State, helping to build coalitions and stimulate pro-choice grassroots organizing. On behalf of our members, we communicate with the Governor's Office and state agencies, especially the Department of Health, to promote reproductive health services. We also work to guide member organizations through the uncertainties of a rapidly changing healthcare environment. Originally established in 1977 as a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization, FPA later expanded its outreach and public education efforts. FPA established the
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Plan B Consumer Home Page About a progestinonly emergency contraceptive available in the US ( If Plan A fails, go to Plan B ) http://www.go2planb.com/
Extractions: What Is Plan B How to Get Plan B Taking Plan B Resource Library What Is Emergency Contraception? How Plan B Works Plan B : Safe and Effective FAQs Educational Materials Online Resources References How Plan B Works Side Effects and Tolerability Dosing And Administration FAQS Key Patient Messages Support Materials Online Resources References How Plan B Works Side Effects and Tolerability Dosing and Administration FAQs How To Order Plan B Direct-Access States Support Materials Online Resources References Things do not always go as planned. You might have forgotten to take your pill, or another birth control method you used might have failed, like your condom broke. Now you have a second chance to prevent pregnancy with Plan B Plan B is an emergency contraceptive that can still prevent a pregnancy after contraceptive failure or unprotected sex.
