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Can a person get pregnant if they don't have intercourse on fertile days? what happens to sperm right off if you are not fertile?

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Dr. HUGH Melnick answered

Specializes in Fertility Medicine

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE: Sperm can stay alive, under certain conditions, in a womans reproductive tract for 7 days and can fertilize an egg even if sex did not occur during the fertile period!

Answered 4/15/2013

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