What about the woman that is taking birth control, and needs to switch, because the one she's on isn't made anymore... And the new one, doesn't work... But she doesn't know it, until it's too late? Or, the woman that tried a new form of b/c, and...shes part of that small percentage that it didn't work for? Transdermal was new years ago, and many women got pregnant on it. I believe they pulled it for few yrs, or at least a while, and I thought for good (I used to work in a pharmacy and heard many stories like this, and I felt awful for some of these women, they were all walks of life, & just not looking to start a family just yet for many different reasons), but I read recently that Transdermal b/c is still available.. I wouldn't recommend it though, yikes! Anyway, it's such a fine line when u start saying certain people can, but others can't.. Because not all of these situations fall under one, or the other (lazy VS victim), and then who is to decide these things? I also believe in absolutely having a cut off period (again, bad pun not intended). These partial ones are brutal.