Being pregnant is more dangerous than using con- traception. Therefore, the higher the typical failure rate (Table 1)1,2, the riskier a method is. This failure rate is 300 times as important in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sierra Leone or Niger(nearly 2% chance that a pregnancy will result in a maternal death and gener- ally no access to safe abortions) than in Scandinavia( chance, and induced abortions very safe).