this might sound stupid but I can’t help but believe that the new wave of “birth control is actually horrible for your body, you need to get off it immediately” misinformation from influencers and the ‘natural cycle tracking’ apps suddenly being advertised is a sneaky underhanded way of causing more unplanned pregnancies that people now cannot abort. now is possibly the worst time ever to turn towards ‘natural family planning’
Except birth control actually is terrible for you. I have seen it wreck people’s health.
Natural family planning methods vary in effectiveness, but the effectiveness is also very much affected by how important avoiding a pregnancy is to you - aka how much you’re willing to “risk it” by having sex when you’re unsure whether you’re in the fertile window.
The Sympto-Thermal method is one of the most effective methods and incredibly easy to learn.
But ultimately, if you don’t want to get pregnant, don’t have sex. Abstinence is more effective than any contraceptive method out there. It’s also the absolute easiest - you just need some self-control.
Thank you for proving my suspicion prolifeproliberty! The recent trend is absolutely not about considering individual bodily chemistry, discussing different contraceptive methods and finding the correct birth control for different people, it is about slutshaming and fearmongering to cause as many accidental pregnancies as possible.
