Via Atrios, we find good old Senator Coburn (R-OK) trying to tell us that 97% is actually 50%. It's kind of nice having something you can count on in life...even if that something is an insane Senator who continues to get elected and kill this country, one brain cell at a time.
During today’s Senate debate on S. 403, a bill on abortion parental notification laws, former physician and One Who Should Know Better, Sen. Tom Coburn, argued that by distributing condoms in schools, we were rationalizing risky behavior to teenagers. “You know, the moral rationalization is if you make a mistake there’s no consequences. I’ve seen the consequences. Condoms and teenagers work about 50% of the time, if you count all the studies up,” said Coburn.
The actual rate of condom effectiveness in pregnancy prevention is closer to 97 percent. According to the “INFO Project” at Johns Hopkins University, “Among people who use condoms consistently and correctly, pregnancy rates are fairly low—about 3 pregnancies per 100 women in the first year of use.”
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