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unplanned pregnancy

September 3rd 2010

Ninjasonik Raises Awareness About Unplanned Hipster Pregnancy

- Liz Sabatiuk

***WARNING: graphic thong footage.***

September 1st 2010

Whoops! Birth Control You Can Use After Sex

- Provider Perspective

There are lots of reasons the best laid plans for using birth control don’t work out:

I completely forgot to take my pill (!)…
I just didn’t have enough money to pay for the ring this month…
The condom broke….
We’d had some drinks and got carried away…

Something like this happens to most of us at some point. If you’ve had unprotected sex for any reason, you can still prevent pregnancy by using emergency contraception (EC). Some types of EC are also called ‘the morning after pill’, and all EC prevents pregnancy after sex.

May 21st 2010

Get It On Standing Up - But Use Protection!

- Liz Sabatiuk

If you haven't stumbled upon them already, here are a couple videos about one particularly absurd finding from The Fog Zone that we decided to highlight. Check out the videos, then see how hip you are to contraceptive fact v. fiction with this true/false questionnaire.

Also check out this Web MD article for more information about crazy birth control myths. And let us know in the comments if you've heard any others that we missed.

May 15th 2010

Standing Up to Idiots: Responses and Reflections

- Anya Alvarez

Ever since I came out with my story about Mr. Idiot thinking he had the right to take off his condom and pull out my NuvaRing without consulting me, I have received numerous responses, all expressing varying degrees of disgust and disbelief that this kind of stuff does actually happen. The most interesting thing, however, is who I have been receiving responses from. A number of men have written me apologizing for their gender, asking me if I’m okay, and if there is anything they can do for me.

A few examples of responses I have gotten from men:

April 30th 2010

The Contraception Learning Curve

- Provider Perspective

Not everybody’s doing it: about half of U.S. women younger than 20 are sexually active. But among women who are having sex, younger women are more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy. What’s the deal?

First let’s look at the numbers. A new report shows that, compared to older women, sexually active women aged 15-19 are more than twice as likely to have an unintended pregnancy.

April 2nd 2010

Health Reform as We See It

- Jessica Swafford

This piece is cross-posted from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's blog, Pregnant Pause. Jessica Swafford is the Campaign's Assistant Director of Policy.

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So there's been a significant amount of buzz about health reform, but the real question is, what does it mean for you? Given our focus on teen and unplanned pregnancy prevention, we thought it would be helpful to give you the scoop as we see it...

The General High Points

March 24th 2010

Today's the "Back Up Your Birth Control" Day of Action!

- Liz Sabatiuk

Okay, so I confess I was excited to have an excuse to post a video of bunnies (below--found thanks to RHRealityCheck), but I'm even more excited about the Back Up Your Birth Control Campaign, coordinated by the National Institute for Reproductive Health, to raise awareness about emergency contraception (EC, a.k.a. the morning-after pill).

March 9th 2010

Prego Scare By Text Message

- Laura Sessions Stepp

The first text message my young traveling companion got stopped her in the middle of our conversation.

It read: Hey. I have a big secret I cant tell u til monday tho. But its huge girl nd im scared.

My companion typed:

Ur prego??? Ahhhhhhh

My companion’s friend, whom I’ll call "Worried", came back: They tested me today nd they r gunna call to tell me if it was positive or negative on monday. Im sooo scared!

And so began a saga for my companion, a college freshman, that started last Thursday in my car and continued until late last night.

The first text from Worried arrived as we were driving south on I-95, headed to a conference to talk about, of all things, young people and sex.