Some women are faced with choices that they find very hard to make consciously, and they may then begin to use their contraceptives erratically as though they hope that fate may somehow make decisions for them.
Miss F. was a 19-year-old who had a steady partner. The relationship had lasted several years and she had taken the Pill regularly with no problems. She felt the relationship was important to her, but she had now gained a university place which would mean moving away from home and from her partner. She felt torn in two, pleased to have a university place but fearful that going away would end the relationship. She began forgetting to take her contraceptive pills and the inevitable happened and she became pregnant. Paradoxically perhaps, this enabled her to make her choice. She now realized that she did not want a baby and realized how resentful she would feel if she did not go to university. She had an abortion and went to university.
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