Women: Do you know all your contraceptive choices?

Posted: Thursday, September 6, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 2:47 am, Wed Dec 5, 2012.

(BPT) - - It has been said that most of life is about making choices and the rest is about luck. Every day, women are faced with numerous choices – both big and small, from which political affiliations we hold to how we raise our families to what to serve for dinner to how to style our hair. One area that we don’t often realize how many choices we have is the same area that should not be left to luck - birth control.

Almost all sexually experienced women report having used some method of contraception so choosing birth control is a decision that most women will make at some point in their lives. However, according to the Guttmacher Institute, nearly half of the 3.1 million unintended pregnancies that occur in the U.S. each year occur in women who reported taking contraception during the month they conceived.