Not just pills and condoms

Messages on preventing pregnancy and disease have left better forms of contraception ignored The vast majority of women in the UK spend more than 30 years of their lives trying to avoid becoming pregnant. Contraception has been available free from the NHS since 1974 and today there is a choice of 15 methods, so it would seem that avoiding pregnancy should be straightforward. Yet the evidence demonstrates otherwise, with about one in five conceptions ending in abortion. An understandable preoccupation with the UK's high levels of teenage pregnancy has had the unfortunate consequence of diverting attention from the importance of contraceptive services for women throughout their reproductive years. Yet women in their 20s have the highest abortion rates and perimenopausal women are among those who are most likely to choose an... [read full story]                    

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