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PERSONA BIRTH CONTROL- Part II
"While PERSONA is extremely easy to use in consumer terms, the technology behind how it works takes some explaining. Understanding the idea that it is possible simultaneously to measure two urinary metabolites of female hormones with one Persona Test Stick is one intellectual leap -'dual immunoassay' as it is called, is something which has never yet been available for any application in the public domain. Then there's the fact that the PERSONA Monitor is actually a computer, with the capacity to interpret and store a woman's Test Stick readings and build a database of hormonal values unique to her. Furthermore, not only does PERSONA 'tell' a woman when she is free to make love without contraceptives with 94% accuracy, but it can also tell her when she is due to menstruate, when she is ovulating and her cycle day number."
Pharmacy Magazine, UK
A general discussion of Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods of birth control, including a brief discussion of
Persona
.
The Medical Devices Agency report on
Persona
, issued after some reports of unplanned pregnancies in women using Persona.
MEDIA REPORTS ON PERSONA
"Dec. 4 — It's a decision that can affect the health and happiness of millions of Americans and it concerns the most intimate part of their lives — contraception. For women, the choices can involve some risk. So what would you think if we told you there are new, less risky forms of birth control available elsewhere in the world, but not in the United States even though many of those methods were developed right here in this country. So why can't you get them here? "
"A Matter of Choice" Dateline NBC report December 4, 2000
Number: 5097 Date: 29-May-97
Vatican Theologian Approves Electronic Fertility Predictors
VATICAN CITY (CWN) - A prominent Vatican moral theologian said on Wednesday that it is morally acceptable for married women to use electronic fertility predictors, under certain circumstances.
Father Gino Concetti, writing in the official L'Osservatore Romano newspaper, said that couples practicing natural regulation of childbirth may use the machines as an aid to predict when the wife is most likely to be fertile.
"If, by using this (device), one intends to regulate births according to the criteria of responsible fatherhood and motherhood laid down by the teaching of the Church, then no reservations arise," Father Concetti wrote. "The judgement would be very different if the use of the indicator were to serve for exclusively selfish and hedonistic ends or for 'free love.'"
Devices now on the market in Italy monitor a woman's hormone levels through information from urine tests and a mix of other data stored in its memory. It tells the women if she is fertile, infertile, or if the situation is uncertain.
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