Fertility Awareness Empowers Women

from Meg T. McDonnell, Executive Director

Women Speak for Themselves

By now, you've likely seen the news concerning the leaked memo that explains the Trump Administration's wishes to cut funding for contraception and abortion overseas while increasing funding for fertility based awareness methods (FABMs), especially for young girls. WSFT celebrated this news, because knowledge of how our fertility works is empowering to women. It also provided a great opportunity to correct the record about the effectiveness of FABMs

This week's What's Speaking To Us addresses some of the myths that have been circulating regarding FABMs, as well as some resources for those wishing to promote FABMs more.

A Doctor's Perspective On The Effectiveness of FABMs 

Writing for the Washington Examiner, Dr. Marguerite Duane, a family physician and a WSFT media trained member set the record straight concerning the effectiveness of FABMs. Responding to a Newsweek article that conflated FABMs with the "rhythm method," Dr. Duane's piece is a great resource to share with anyone who is unfamiliar with the effectiveness of FABMs.

 From Dr. Duane's article:

"The real effectiveness rates of modern FABMs with correct use range between 95.2 percent and 99.6 percent, based on the highest-quality published medical research. Even with typical use, the unintended pregnancy rates range from 2-14 percent per year, which are comparable to most commonly used forms of birth control. However, unlike conventional birth control methods, the World Health Organization recognizes FABMs as the only family planning methods that have no medical side effects."

 

Women Speak For Themselves is a national grassroots movement empowering women to speak in media, local communities and online, about how women are disadvantaged respecting dating and marriage, especially because of contraception and abortion, and about how to reconnect sex with marriage and children for the good of all people. For more information on this movement, please use this link. 




   

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