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. 2020 Aug;102(2):67-69.
doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2020.05.014. Epub 2020 May 29.

"Shared risk": Reframing risk analysis in the ethics of novel male contraceptives

Georgina D Campelia  1 , Carmen Abbe  2 , Logan M Nickels  3 , Evy McElmeel  4 , John K Amory  5
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"Shared risk": Reframing risk analysis in the ethics of novel male contraceptives

Georgina D Campelia et al. Contraception. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: Contraception; Male contraception; Reproductive ethics; Reproductive rights; Side effects; Unintended pregnancy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
The risk of death from female oral combination contraceptives (left), unintended pregnancy (middle) and of a potential male contraception (right) to women (pink), men (blue) and couples (orange). Potentially acceptable risk for a male contraceptive is depicted on the far right as less than 7.5 deaths/million user years. Note that a male contraception with a rate of 1 death per million user years would result in an approximately 86% reduction in shared risk of death for the couple.
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