Caplis claimed birth control “fails at an alarmingly high rate” despite stats showing its efficacy
August 30, 2007
After discussing the recent revelation that Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry “has fathered nine children by nine women,” 630 KHOW-AM co-host Craig Silverman on his August 27 broadcast asked, “Hasn’t anybody heard of birth control?” Echoing recent comments in Colorado media by an anti-abortion activist, co-host Dan Caplis responded, “Well, hey, hasn’t everybody heard that birth control fails at an alarmingly high rate?” Later in The Caplis & Silverman Show broadcast, Caplis repeated the statement, saying that “birth control does fail, and it fails at an alarmingly high rate.” In fact, the three most popular forms of contraception — oral contraceptives, sterilization, and male condoms — have failure rates ranging from 0.15 to 15 percent for the first year of “typical use,” and from 0.1 to 2 percent for the first year of “perfect use,” according to the medical reference book Contraceptive Technology: Nineteenth Revised Edition (Ardent Media, 2007).
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Silverman took issue with Caplis’ first claim, saying, “I don’t think that birth control fails all that often, especially if you take multiple forms of birth control,” and “I’m not buying birth control failure.” But Caplis then simply repeated his earlier remark, stating, “I’m not suggesting that birth control failed in any or all of these instances that … gave rise to the birth of these nine kids, but what I am saying — and it … was a point that’s just never discussed publicly — birth control does fail, and it fails at an alarmingly high rate.”
Caplis did not name any specific forms of birth control, but according to the National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) 2005 report “Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth ,” the most popular contraceptive methods practiced in the United States among women ages 15 to 44 in 2002 were the pill (19 percent), female sterilization (16.7 percent), male sterilization (5.7 percent), and condoms (11.1 percent). Lesser-used forms of birth control included the injection Depo-Provera (3.3 percent), withdrawal during intercourse (2.5 percent), intra-uterine devices (IUDs) (1.3 percent), periodic abstinence — both “calendar rhythm” and “natural family planning” — (0.9 percent), patches (0.8 percent), and diaphragms (0.2 percent). Another 38.1 percent of women reported either abstaining from sex or not using contraceptives.
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