Seattle Times had an article a few days back on the search for the perfect contraceptive, because, apparently, the pill isn’t good enough:
But despite the freedom in career and family planning the pill extended to so many women and couples, it has not fulfilled one big hope. Fifty years on, about half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended and 22 percent of pregnancies end in abortion.
The only foolproof and perfect contraceptive that’s available to each and everyone – men and women for that matter - is called abstinence. M-W defines it as:
1 : voluntary forbearance especially from indulgence of an appetite or craving or from eating some foods
2 a : habitual abstaining from intoxicating beverages b : abstention from sexual intercourse
We already have the tool at our ready disposal to prevent all the problems mentioned above. But, we don’t want to have anything to do with it. Go figure.
Jokes Apart
UPDATE: CNN wants a male birth control pill … that’s also called abstinence.
