I am currently using it as a form of birth control.
My girlfriend is currently on the pill. On occasion (notably when she has been taking the pill less than a week), we use a condom. Perhaps I could use this everytime. Tbh, it doesn't really matter.
If she gets pregnant, we are getting an abortion.
Now there's a couple alternatives to this.
One: we could not have sex until point X in the future (Define point X as marriage, or financial stability, or both (in our case, both)).
Reason we're not doing it: Because it's not coming for a significant amount of time (we're both in college, not even engaged yet, etc.). And we'd like to be having sex during our best years
. Call us irresponsible, but we've made the choice to not put off sex for X number of years. Since I was originally raised pretty fundamentalist Christian, this was a pretty hard choice for me to make since I consider abortion murder.
Two: we could simply carry the child to term if we conceive.
Uh uh, no chance, no way. I am (and she's not, we've separately come to this conclusion, as well as together) NOT going to deal with a baby at this point in our lives. We simply don't have the responsibility/financial resources to do so.