Kate Hackett
Look, YOU DO YOU when you’re family planning, but I have no sympathy and a TON of eye rolls for this weird “natural birth control” movement that seems to be sweeping my peers. Ladies, gents, I grew up Catholic and LET ME TELL YOU: natural birth control? It does not work.
Is this newsworthy? No, not really, but if you’ve stumbled onto this article because you’re thinking about cycle tracking as a method of birth control, I mean, hi, don’t?
So in a surprise to absolutely nobody but her, Helen Hall (aka @helenleland on TikTok) got pregnant after tracking her cycle as a form of birth control.
Yes. She was this stupid.
On July 10th, she posted a video showing off her baby bump. In the video, she says that she used cycle tracking instead of birth control. I’ll save you the trouble of adding to this dumb video’s viewcount (almost 435,000 views so far– WHY?!) and walk you through it:
“What do you use if you aren’t on the pill?” she wrote in a text overlay.
“Cycle tracking.”
“It didn’t work,” Hall wrote in the caption.
NO SH*T.
The comments are full of anti-science BS, which I won’t repeat, but there were some notes worth taking away:
“Everyone I know that has preached ‘natural family planning’ has had a surprise pregnancy,” @claireswannn wrote. “Give me all the chemicals,” @agrace1127 commented.
Y’all, this is NOT a birth control method. There’s already a ton of room for human error with the pill, why would you risk it even further?! And with America chipping away at our reproductive rights, WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THINKING?
