{"id":65706,"date":"2015-01-24T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=65706"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:54:31","slug":"chart-of-the-week-we-have-less-control-over-our-reproductive-bodies-than-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/01\/24\/chart-of-the-week-we-have-less-control-over-our-reproductive-bodies-than-we-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week: We Have Less Control Over Our Reproductive Bodies Than We Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> published an interactive<\/a> that illustrates the likelihood of pregnancy despite contraceptive use. Risk is divvied up by method, for perfect and typical use, and added up over ten years. The results are a little terrifying (click to see larger or go here<\/a> to explore):<\/p>\n

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Somewhere around half of all pregnancies are unintended. \u00a0This is why. It’s hard enough to use contraceptives perfectly but, even when we do, the risk of failure is very real.<\/p>\n

Male condoms are the safer sex favorite. But, even when used perfectly,\u00a0almost one in five women will get pregnant over a ten year period. With typical use,\u00a0more than four out of five. Withdrawal, one primary\u00a0foil against which male condoms are usually recommended, is only slightly less effective at preventing pregnancy, as typically used.<\/p>\n

The favorite of Americans\u00a0—\u00a0The Pill, as well as some other hormonal methods — is more effective than the condom, but not nearly as much as we think it is. Under ideal conditions, only three in 100\u00a0will get pregnant over ten years; in reality, almost two-thirds — 61 in 100\u00a0— will end up pregnant.<\/p>\n

Only the most human-error resistant methods — the IUD, hormonal implants, and sterilization — near 100% effectiveness. These are permanent or semi-permanent and not real options for a large proportion of sexually active Americans during at least some parts of their lives.<\/p>\n

Discussions of the right to an abortion and the ease with which they can be attained needs to be had with this information at the forefront of the discussion. Unintended pregnancies happen all the time to everyone.<\/p>\n

Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week the\u00a0New York Times published an interactive that illustrates the likelihood of pregnancy despite contraceptive use. Risk is divvied up by method, for perfect and typical use, and added up over ten years. The results are a little terrifying (click to see larger or go here to explore): Somewhere around half of all pregnancies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":65711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,12508,55,2103,2095,2091,252,290],"class_list":["post-65706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-healthmedicine","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/01\/43.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65844,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706\/revisions\/65844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}