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NFP: Backed by Solid Science

For most people learning NFP is a time of observing, recording, and trying to interpret so they can understand when they are fertile and when they are not. But NFP, or more accurately living the NFP lifestyle, is much more than observing fertility changes; it impacts our daily lives in ways that most of us…

FINALLY: CDC’s FABM numbers change

Happily, the CDC now reports that “fertility awareness-based methods…failure rates vary across the methods.” They provide a figure of 2 percent to 23 percent.

NBC misreports family planning statistics

To be fair, all of these sources rightly draw from the CDC, which relies on one very low-quality study to generate its numbers, and then blindly applies that number (the 24 in 100 statistic that Spector uses) to the entire gamut of natural methods.