TRUMP WANTS TO REPLACE BIRTH CONTROL WITH THE DUBIOUS 'CALENDAR METHOD'

[moriah]

33. Seriously? Yes.

You missed the sarcasm tag, so I'm going with your "seriously" as a request for a serious answer

Especially as this is allegedly supposed to be replacing parts of sex education about other, more reliable, methods for young women who may not have developed a fully regular cycle -- if they ever will -- this is not good.

I personally do think every woman should understand her reproductive cycle, and teaching young women how their cycle works and how to track it is great. If a woman's cycle actually does stay within a 26-32 day window, they can make a version of "CycleBeads" cheap. It'd be a cool 6th grade sex project to teach young women how to learn to understand their bodies.

But it should NOT be used as a replacement for education about condoms, pills, LARC, and other better methods, and the effectiveness rates should be accurately expressed for such a system with perfect use.

https://www.cyclebeads.com/blog/673/birth-control-effectiveness_how-risky-is-your-birth-control

Their own chart shows perfect condom use surpasses perfect Standard Days Method, and oral contraceptive "typical use" still surpasses SDM's typical use. That's, by their own website promoting the product, four more teenagers out of every 100 having an unintended pregnancy if this is advertised to teens as a replacement for condoms or birth control, especially when teaching how to use condoms correctly and consistently would overcome the "typical use" issues.