Dear Mother Jones: We, members of the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals (AFAP), were frustrated by the distorted picture of Fertility Awareness and Fertility Awareness Based Methods of contraception (FABMs) presented by Kiera Butler in Mother Jones (September 30, 2022). Although Butler spoke with several of our members, there is almost no mention of the […]
The Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals (AFAP) holds, as a fundamental principle, that abortion is a human right and an essential component of healthcare. Abortion bans harm all people, but in particular people of color, people living in poverty, trans and nonbinary people, people with disabilities, and young people, who typically have less access to […]
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revised the statistics it presents on Fertility Awareness Based Methods of contraception (FABMs) earlier this year. The change is a significant improvement that more accurately reflects the failure rates for various FABMs, including the Symptothermal Method that many AFAP-certified instructors teach. The Association of Fertility Awareness professionals ( AFAP) […]
In May of 2017, AFAP published a statement regarding another group’s petition to the CDC pertaining to the CDC’s published effectiveness statistics for Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABMs) for pregnancy prevention. The CDC is based in the US, but is a global leader in public health, and its website and published information are considered authoritative. […]