{"id":17367,"date":"2025-01-19T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/young-women-can-fall-pregnant-very-easily-inside-the-wild-west-of-smartphone-fertility-apps\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:37:51","slug":"young-women-can-fall-pregnant-very-easily-inside-the-wild-west-of-smartphone-fertility-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/young-women-can-fall-pregnant-very-easily-inside-the-wild-west-of-smartphone-fertility-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Young women can fall pregnant very easily\u2019: inside the wild west of smartphone fertility apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy <\/p>\n<p>Apps promising to help women \u201ctake control\u201d of their sex lives by predicting the days when they are fertile are putting users at risk of unplanned pregnancy by making misleading\u00a0claims.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of women in the UK \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/about-the-ico\/media-centre\/news-and-blogs\/2023\/09\/ico-to-review-period-and-fertility-tracking-apps\/#:~:text=Results%20of%20note%3A%2034%25%20of,app%20to%20plan%20a%20pregnancy.\"> including 69% of 18-24-year-olds<\/a> \u2013 have used smartphone apps that track their periods. Many also tell them their \u201cfertile window\u201d: the days when they are most and least likely to get pregnant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/19\/young-women-can-fall-pregnant-very-easily-inside-the-wild-west-of-smartphone-fertility-apps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9794e3af2d0bcff6cdd14cbaa18fab4f14dd6998\/0_55_2411_1446\/master\/2411.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=87af46ea0059e205ecefb1227feb3213\" title=\"\u2018Young women can fall pregnant very easily\u2019: inside the wild west of smartphone fertility apps\" \/>Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy<br \/>\nApps promising to help women \u201ctake control\u201d of their sex lives by predicting the days when they are fertile are putting users at risk of unplanned pregnancy by making misleading\u00a0claims.<br \/>\nMillions of women in the UK \u2013 including 69% of 18-24-year-olds \u2013 have used smartphone apps that track their periods. Many also tell them their \u201cfertile window\u201d: the days when they are most and least likely to get pregnant. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy Apps promising to help women \u201ctake control\u201d of their sex lives by predicting the days when they are fertile are putting users at risk of unplanned pregnancy by making misleading\u00a0claims. Millions of women in the UK \u2013 including 69% of 18-24-year-olds &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/young-women-can-fall-pregnant-very-easily-inside-the-wild-west-of-smartphone-fertility-apps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Young women can fall pregnant very easily\u2019: inside the wild west of smartphone fertility apps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}