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You realize that this is actually a valid technique that has been used for many years, right? It does work if done properly because the female body does give signs when fertile. The problem is that it should be done with a lot of coaching from someone who knows what they are doing, which tends to be a failure of most apps.

Here's a web site for people who are hoping to have a baby.
http://americanpregnancy.org/g...

Can you get pregnant if you have sex DURING YOUR PERIOD?
Yes! Surprise! Semen stays on the job for days after the sex occurred. Those hard-working little guys don't give up right away.

Can I ovulate without having a period?
Sure! Now figure out how to time ovulation when she's skipping periods.

Don't women ovulate on the 14th day after the period starts?
Yes! And also pretty much anytime between the 11th and 21st days.
Good luck with timing that!
And keep in mind that the semen lasts for days, so we're really talking about the 5th-22nd day being a viable target.

Does the likelihood of conception failure increase with the income of the male partner?
Yes! and it's exponential! (OK, I made that one up)

1. The Zika virus has been Africa and Southeast Asia since forever.

2. They don't seem to have microcephalic cases like Brazil has.

3. The virus was introduced into Brazil sometime around 2015.

4. 2015 Brazil sees a 10x increase in microcephalic cases.

So far that seems compelling that Zika is causing the cases. But why aren't we seeing the same thing in Africa or Asia? It's not like the Zika virus in Brazil has had thousands of years to mutate into a version that causes microcephaly, but not the original strain in Africa and Southeast Asia. It's the same virus.

It's not like the people in Brazil don't have the same "immunity" that people in Africa and Southeast Asian people have -- a large percentage of the Brazilian people *have* West African ancestors where the Zika virus has been found.

Here's an alternate hypothesis: some kind of chemical has been introduced into Brazil in 2015 that's causing the birth defects. Maybe a pesticide that hasn't been properly tested, or a morning sickness drug that wasn't tested.

Citations:

For pesticides and birth defects: http://www.counterpunch.org/20... http://americanpregnancy.org/p... and http://www.beyondpesticides.or...

Pesticides and microcephaly: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm... and http://www.gmls.eu/beitraege/1...

For morning sickness drugs: http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/...

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/main/statistics.html

6 million total pregnancies
4 million live births
0.8 million miscarriages/still births
1.2 million abortions

1.2/6 = 20%

So one in five pregnancies end up in an abortion. If you only include viable pregnancies it's more like one in four. Regardless of your position on abortion it's a very high number.

Googling for "condom failure rate" seems to yield a lot of different statistics. On here, they say the failure rate is 15%, but that's per year, i.e. if a couple uses a male condom for regular sex for a year, there's a 15% chance of pregnancy. Now remember, a single condom failure doesn't mean automatic pregnancy with a woman, since she's only fertile a small percentage of the time anyway. I think I read somewhere that using no birth control at all is 70% effective in preventing pregnancy, which of course is due to this fact. So if this organization's numbers are to be believed, the actual condom failure rate is higher than that number would indicate, it's just that over 50% of the time, that failure doesn't lead to pregnancy because of the woman's biology. This wouldn't be the case with STD transmission.

Your numbers are probably correct too, on a per-use basis, since the yearly statistic above would have to average the number of sexual encounters for partners in whatever study they used to get that number: some couples might only have sex weekly or even monthly, while others might do it daily.

You apparently ARE mistaken about how babies are made. Not one single homosexual sex act has ever produced a single baby. Also, women are get pregnant without sex every day. http://www.americanpregnancy.org/infertility/ivf.html

It really surprises me how many adults really don't know how babies are made, and thus repeat the same ignorant comment that you did.

I have a problem with the argument that abortion should be legal because a girl might get raped, and she might not want to carry the baby to term afterwards. While this might be considered a legitimate reason to have an abortion, consider the statistics:

1. There are about 6 million pregnancies in the United State per year.
2. There are about 200 pregnancies due to rape per year.

From what I can see, the above two figures come from reliable sources, meaning that about 0.00003% of all pregnancies in the United States are due to rape.

So my question is: why is it okay to make abortion legal and freely available in all cases, just to make it available for the 0.00003% that may have legitimate reasons?

See my other post about my story and my friends. We both were told we would have down syndrome kids, though he was basically told it was a guarantee, not us.

Turns out none of it was true. He has two healthy kids with no health symptoms and I have 3 great kids with no health symptoms.

Needs more science. Triple-Screen or Amnio? Triple-Screen (the first pass) does not tell you with certainty - it gives you a statistical result that you can use to decide if you want to do Amnio (which tells you with certainty. triple-screen is non-invasive. amnio carries a risk of miscarriage - a needle through the mother and through the placenta wall - you'd know it if you did it).

Sorry if your medical practitioner didn't provide you with complete information but "none of it was true" sounds more like you didn't understand what was done - unless you're asserting you had an amnio that told you your child would have down syndrome and it was wrong (highly unlikely.)

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/prenataltesting/tripletest.html

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists(ACOG) (...) studies reveal that anywhere from 10-25% of all clinically recognized pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Estimations of chemical pregnancies or unrecognized pregnancies that are lost can be as high as 50-75%, but many of these are unknown since they often happen before a woman has missed a period or is aware she is pregnant.

... that oxytocin is also the main drug used in inducing labor, usually for moms who aren't delivering fast enough for the doctor to make their tee time.