For others, reasons include: contraception failure, not thinking, getting caught up in the moment, believing they couldn’t get pregnant, not feeling comfortable obtaining contraception, being drunk, feeling pressured to have unprotected sex, and being too embarrassed to ask a partner to use contraception. Many of these responses, particularly for young teenagers, do not portray a young person in control and making their own choices. There has been a lot of work to address these vulnerabilities amongst teenagers over the last decade, resulting in the under-18 conception rate now being the lowest it’s been since 1969.