A Princeton professor says it’s time to ditch the “outdated” Pill because it has done nothing to stem the tide of unintended and teenage pregnancies. James Trussell, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, made the recommendation while speaking last month in London at a conference of Britain’s largest abortion-promoting organization, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. He also said that emergency contraception is not the solution because there is too much unprotected sex occurring.

Trussell instead suggests that what’s needed is more and better contraceptives: “The Pill is an outdated method because it does not work well enough. It is very difficult for ordinary women to take a pill every single day. The beauty of the implant or the IUD is that you can forget about them.” Even still, Trussell–who serves on the board of the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation and is a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute, the research branch of Planned Parenthood–said there is no “magic bullet” answer for preventing unintended pregnancies. He seems to have overlooked the fact that abstinence is a guarantee every time.