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Exciting possibilities on the horizon in the form of either party held responsible for unwanted children, rather than either/or.
If a birth control mechanism is available for men, but they refuse to take it, or neglect to take it, can they be charged with the undesirable tort of such an outcome with respect to women? Interesting avenue!
If that could become a reality, the morning after pill RTU 86 might look much more promising than relying upon the trust of either him or her, with the true potential of making parenthood an option, not an accident. That would be a win in the column of all children born.
--pbr
12/03 |
I thought the notion that nonoxynol-9 helped spread HIV was a myth.
--LD
12/03 |
I recently had an IUD inserted. It stays in for up to 10 years... is usually easy to remove... doesn't effect fertility. However... in order for it to remain safe... you should be in a monogomous relationship as infection with an STD could be fatal as the disease can more easily move into your uteris. They also recommend it for women who have had at least one child (I guess the cervix is a better shape to contain the device, once you've had a child). It makes alot of sense to me... it seems to be very comfortable. It hurts a little when they insert it. (about 5 seconds) You can choose the hormone or the copper... I chose the copper knowing how negatively my state of mind is affected by hormones. I talked to the gyn. about the negative press that IUD had received with the "Dalcon Shield" and why it had been bad for a lot of women. She said it was because the thread used to be cloth and wick the infection more easily into the body... now the threads are a plastic substance... Also women were not being well screened for the device... eg. the monogomous thing etc
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11/23 |
I recently had an IUD inserted. It stays in for up to 10 years... is usually easy to remove... doesn't effect fertility. However... in order for it to remain safe... you should be in a manogomous relationship as infection with an STD could be fatal as the disease can more easily move into your uteris. They also recommend it for women who have had at least one child (I guess the cervix is a better shape to contain the device, once you've had a child). It makes alot of sense to me... it seems to be very comfortable. It hurts a little when they insert it. (about 5 seconds) You can choose the hormone or the copper... I chose the copper knowing how negatively my state of mind is affected by hormones. I talked to the gyn. about the negative press that IUD had received with the "Dalcon Shield" and why it had been bad for a lot of women. She said it was because the thread used to be cloth and wick the infection more easily into the body... now the threads are a plastic substance... Also women were not being well screened for the device... eg. the manogomous thing etc.
--cm
11/23 |
One way in which women have managed 'not to have 20 kids' is breastfeeding. Breastfeeding on cue, including during the night-time, supresses ovulation and menstruation. This method of birth control is about 90% effective until the woman resumes her menstrual period, which can be well over a year after the birth, depending on her physiology, the frequency of baby's desire to feed and cultural ideas about breastfeeding. Once she resumes menstruating, she must assume she is fully fertile.
Women in our culture may not wish to use this method as there are other methods that are much more effective, and because they may not wish or be able to breastfeed this frequently. During other times, though, and in other cultures, child-spacing has been found to be on average 3-4 years, the same as duration of breastfeeding. Again, I don't suggest an individual count on this, but on a population level, or over a long lifetime of unproteced sex, this definiely reduces the birth rate.
The other contraceptive method I have seen suggested from earlier times is a sea sponge placed over the cervix, which again would likely decrease the chance of pregnancy, but not to nearly the same efficacy as current methods.
--MW
11/21 |
Does anyone have any idea what women did between 1900 and 1950 (before the introduction of the Pill) for birth control, aside from use condoms? I'd be interested to know how people managed not to have 20 kids a piece before the Pill and latex condoms. Thanks!
--KJS
11/18 |
The problem with current contraception is that it all requires active measures in order to sustain it. What is really needed is a birth control method which requires no real action to continue working. Ideally a drug which would render the person infertile until an "antidote" was given.
Even birth control which lasts for months or even years can cause problems, as the extended time between doses would seem to make it easier to forget then a daily routine.
--msl
11/16 |
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