To add to this, several factors can cause birth control to fail, including being overweight (doctors basically never bother to prescribe an increased dosage, and insurance generally won’t cover it anyways), mixing with certain other medications/supplements, eating a lot of grapefruit, etc.
Note that the failure rates are for the average use of the method. Consistent and correct use may further decrease your chances. For specific hormonal birth control methods, the risk of pregnancy for correct use should be listed in the instructions/details.
All methods of birth control have fail rates.
To add to this, several factors can cause birth control to fail, including being overweight (doctors basically never bother to prescribe an increased dosage, and insurance generally won’t cover it anyways), mixing with certain other medications/supplements, eating a lot of grapefruit, etc.
Hell, pretty sure alcohol fucks with it too.
Rates lower than dishonesty rates
Here, educate yourself. It might surprise you!
withdrawal almost as effective as a condom?
Yes. There’s a lot of user errors with condoms.
Edit: