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Of the 42 million American women who are sexually active, 3 million this year will give birth to babies they never planned for, according to The Alan Guttmacher Institute. The National Academy of Sciences reports six in 10 of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned.
Yet, most women who unintentionally find themselves in the family way do, in fact, practice birth control. The problem is they are using birth control either inconsistently or incorrectly.
Although a woman can become pregnant at any time, if you have a steady partner and are sexually active on a frequent basis, your risks of becoming pregnant are far greater than someone who only engages in intercourse a couple of times a year. If you don’t have sex often, then you may not choose to use the pill, which protects against pregnancy every day of the year. But those decisions depend on a number of other factors.