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What percentage of women who had abortions in the year 2000 used some form of contraception during the month that they conceived?

A. 5%. The vast majority of women who come for abortions weren’t using any protection.

B. 27%. Contraception is pretty effective, but not completely. As long as women use their contraception correctly, they won’t get pregnant. Women who get abortions just don’t use contraception consistently or correctly.

C. 54%. Contraception is not as effective or easy to use as you think.

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Question: What percentage of African American adults (aged 20-54) were married in 1970 and in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available? Read more…

Thanks to those who participated in February’s marriage quiz. Once again, the question was:

What percentage of Artificial Reproductive Technology patients are married couples, and what percentage are unmarried women?

A. The vast majority of ART patients, about 75%, are married couples.

B. It is split about evenly between married and unmarried women.

C. It is evenly split three ways: about a third married women, about a third partnered lesbians and about a third single women.

D. None of the above.

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