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Not only does the Birth Control Pill not work as well as advertised — it may cause abortions

According to a column in TownHall.com, the advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn’t work very well.  Professor James Trussell of Princeton, one of the world experts on failure rates of various forms of contraception, told a conference in the UK, “(on average) one in 12 women taking the Pill get pregnant each year because they miss so many tablets.” In other words, over 8% of women taking the pill gets pregnant each year. Worse yet, some may be aborting an unrecognized pregnancy and not even knowing it.

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Professor Says Women Use Birth Control Pill Wrong, Resulting in Abortions

LifeNews.com is reporting the comments of a Princeton University professor who says women are not using birth control pills correctly and the misuse is resulting in pregnancies and abortions that wouldn’t otherwise occur. Professor James Trussell says about 8 percent of women who use the birth control pill become pregnant annually and get abortions because they don’t take the pills faithfully.

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