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Can you get pregnant from semen being around your vagina? while on birth control

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Yes: Yes the semen can drip into the area and swim into your vagina into your tubes and make contact with your ovaries

Answered 8/26/2014

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

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Unlikely: Semen in birth canal- YES On birth control unlikely but rarely some failures of condoms, creams etc. Rare if not impossible on the hormone pills.

Dr Rhoads and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/28/2016

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