Plenty of grown ups of average or even above average intelligence assume that 99.9% effective contraception means they’ll never be in the .01% statistic.
If you’ve had the “if the highly effective redundant contraception fails, should we abort?” conversation before getting any sperm anywhere near any eggs with every partner you’ve ever had, I’d posit that you’re in a slim minority of humanity.
And no human, no matter how rational, can predict with perfect accuracy what their emotional response will be to experiencing a physiological event that is completely novel to them.
I mean, .01% is a tiny rate if we’re talking yearly, and I think an acceptable risk even if you don’t plan to abort. But at this point we’re completely away from the original point because .01% would mean you have a lot of control, which is my point exactly. Nothing is perfect, but the estimated efficacy of good contraception is probably largely dragged down by a long tail of people who are really bad at it or downright lie in self reporting studies.
Plenty of grown ups of average or even above average intelligence assume that 99.9% effective contraception means they’ll never be in the .01% statistic.
If you’ve had the “if the highly effective redundant contraception fails, should we abort?” conversation before getting any sperm anywhere near any eggs with every partner you’ve ever had, I’d posit that you’re in a slim minority of humanity.
And no human, no matter how rational, can predict with perfect accuracy what their emotional response will be to experiencing a physiological event that is completely novel to them.
I mean, .01% is a tiny rate if we’re talking yearly, and I think an acceptable risk even if you don’t plan to abort. But at this point we’re completely away from the original point because .01% would mean you have a lot of control, which is my point exactly. Nothing is perfect, but the estimated efficacy of good contraception is probably largely dragged down by a long tail of people who are really bad at it or downright lie in self reporting studies.