Posted by Ruben on ContraceptionBlog.com, the official blog of the No Room for Contraception Campaign. After being off of the market since 1995, the Today (r) Sponge contraceptive was reintroduced this past May. A recent press release announcing a new marketing effort for the contraceptive paints a rosy picture of the effectiveness of this method. The Today(r) Sponge is safe, effective and has been used by millions of women. In clinical trials, the Today(r) Sponge has proven to be 89% - 91% effective in preventing pregnancy with no serious adverse events reported in over 1800 Today(r) Sponge users(1). Yet this press release doesn’t tell the whole story. The 89% - 91% figures are for perfect use, and do not reflect real world (”typical”) failure rates. For women who haven’t given birth, sponge contraceptives have a “typical” failure rate of up to 26%, and for women who have, the failure rate
Pratibha Patil, who was sworn in as India’s first female president on Wednesday, said she would fight for women’s rights and called for an end to sex-selective abortion and infant mortality, AFP/Middle East Times reports (Roche, AFP/Middle East Times, 7/25). According to the [click link for full article]
By Elizabeth O’Brien
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, July 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The director of the West Alabama Women’s Clinic was arrested for disorderly conduct towards police and peaceful pro-life witnesses outside her abortion clinic last week.
World Net Daily (WND) reports that approximately…
By John Jalsevac
MOSCOW, Russia, July 30, 2007 (LifeSIteNews.com) - A Russian nationalist youth group is encouraging youth to have more sex in an effort to combat the nation’s devastating demographic crisis, reports the Daily Mail.
In a lengthy special report the Daily Mail documents the…
By John Jalsevac
SYDNEY, Australia, July 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - World Youth Day ‘08 organizers have said that they will not co-operate with any efforts to disseminate safe-sex information that contradicts Church teachings on extra-marital sexual relations and contraception to WYD…
