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Effectiveness: For women who always use the sponge as directed, 9 in 100 of them get pregnant each year, with that number being greater (20 out of 100 women) for women who have given birth or have ...

While hormonal birth control pills are a common form of birth control, some forms of birth control don’t involve hormones. Instead, nonhormonal options prevent pregnancy by physically or chemically ...