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Unintended pregnancies occur less often when a wide array of contraceptive choices is available. Now, industry-supported studies provide reassuring results about two newer options, continuous-use oral contraception (OC) and etonogestrel implants.
In the first study, investigators noted that return to fertility was not delayed after cessation of a continuous OC (90 µg of levonorgestrel and 20 µg of ethinyl estradiol). Among 2100 participants, 21 stopped taking continuous OCs after a mean duration of 197 days (range, 27–364) because they wanted to become pregnant. Of these women, 57% were pregnant at 3 months, 81% at 12 months, and 86% at 13 months after stopping OC use. Median time from OC discontinuation to estimated date of conception was 4…