Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk)

An anonymous reader shares a report: A contraceptive mobile phone app used by tens of thousands of British women has come under fire after reportedly sparking a string of unwanted pregnancies. Swedish birth control app Natural Cycles, which costs $55, tracks body temperature to accurately predict when in the month a woman is more likely to fall pregnant. The period monitor was hailed as a non-mood altering alternative to the pill and, if used perfectly, was found to be 99 per cent effective by researchers. But the app has come under fire after the Sodersjukhuset hospital in Stockholm lodged a complaint with the Swedish Medical Products Agency, the country's government body responsible for regulation of medical devices. It claimed staff at the hospital had recorded 37 women who had fallen pregnant in the last quarter of 2017 after using the app. One midwife said the hospital had a duty to report all side effects.

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Swedes try product because of marketing

[tietokone-olmi]

Swedes get burned by marketing. Who would have thought an unverifiable, exceptional claim of 99% efficacy for what's basically a fancy rhythm method, also known as "safe days", wouldn't pan out like they said?

Lucky that abortions are free in Sweden.

Re:Swedes try product because of marketing

[DigiShaman]

Luckily. Right. You know, it's pretty sad that as a race, we decide to abort our mistakes. If you can't make the adult decision to live with your choices, perhaps it's best to either abstain from sex, or get tubes tied (man and woman).

It's not like shopping for groceries were you say "you know, I decided I don't want that apple", and then toss it.

People that are pro-abortion have no say-so when it comes to the loss of life in war and strife. Human life is human life. At least be consistent about it.

Re: Swedes try product because of marketing

[Bartles]

Free as in Swedish Doctors work without pay and all the medication and apparatus is donated?

Re:Swedes try product because of marketing

[LeftCoastThinker]

1. Human life alone is sentient, has a soul and is a gift from God. As soon as you get away from that simple fact, you are keeping company with Hitler, Stalin, Mao and the other mass murdering genocidal maniacs of the last century. Plants, fish, insects may respirate, but are clearly not sentient. Some large animals are soulish, but still not self aware and are driven mostly by instinct. Brain size alone does not impart a soul. Only the foolish who are enamored with nature without actually living in it think that animal life is the same as human life...

2. The purpose of sex is multifaceted. Sex creates a bond between two people at a physical, emotional and spiritual level. Sex is pleasurable. It also makes babies. You can ignore these basic realities, but it makes them no less true. God created a framework called (monogamous, lifelong) marriage in which sex can be enjoyed to the fullest and practiced often, which also creates an inherent support structure for the inevitable children that result.

3. If we were to close down all legal abortion, I agree that some people would still be irresponsible, but they could still use other forms of contraception, and those couples that did become pregnant would either get married or put the child up for adoption. The consequences are pretty easy to predict, Abortion was illegal for the last 200 years until 4 unelected lawyers in black robes pulled the "right" to an abortion out of their collective asses...