They're more effective, yes, but carry more risks since you're keeping a foreign object in you for up to 10 years at a time.

You can see the various options and pregnancy rates (both based on the typical use and the perfect use case) for the first year: http://www.arhp.org/Publications-and-Resources/Quick-Referen...

Personally, rates like these makes me glad to be a gay male.

> carry more risks

Citation needed, and good luck finding one considering the long list of pills side effects.

Also all your previous objections to birth control are invalid in the case of IUD.

Very effective and a good choice, but I know someone who had a child after getting an IUD.

IUD pregnancies are often extrauterine (which are mostly non viable, so that solves the unwanted pregnancy problem). And there's still abortion. I wonder to what point having a child was a choice in the case you evoked.

As someone who had a very wanted (married, secure in our careers) pregnancy end up being “extrauterine” (tubal, if you must know) and therefore requiring emergency medical intervention to not kill me, I think you may want to reconsider that as a better or more economical outcome.