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Article: Pregnancies swamp Navy sea operations: Female sailors forget to take pill.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 13, 1997
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Navy women assigned to ships forget to take birth-control pills and experience more unwanted pregnancies and a higher abortion rate than shore-duty women, according to an internal Navy study.
Relying on a survey of 2,032 women assigned to 50 ships, researchers at the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center in San Diego concluded that ship pregnancies "are more disruptive" than shore pregnancies to military operations.
Opponents of mixed-sex Navy crews said the survey proves that prohibited sexual relations during long sea deployments are common.
"It's alarming," said Robert Maginnis, a Family Research Council analyst who opposes mixed ...