Natural Cycles: contraceptive app blamed for 37 unwanted pregnancies

App used by 125,000 UK women calculates fertility with mathematical algorithm

Natural Cycles app
(Image credit: Natural Cycles)

A contraceptive app is being investigated after 37 women seeking abortions blamed it for their unwanted pregnancy.

A Stockholm hospital filed a complaint with the Swedish Medical Product Agency over the Natural Cycles app after it was linked more than three dozen terminated pregnancies in the last four months of 2017, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

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