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Current Issues: January |
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| Will the morning-after pill do harm? |  |
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Carolyn King, Sevenoaks, Kent |
Colin Parsons, Llantrisant, Mid Glamorgan |
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I'm distressed and outraged that the morning-after pill will be made available without prescription from New Year's Day. This sends out the wrong message to women, including teenage girls, that they don't have to take responsibility for unprotected sex. If the morning after pill will be widely available, the real danger is that it will encourage women to behave promiscuously. Isn't it the duty of parents to love, nurture and protect their children from harm? With this legislation, it will be impossible. Would Health Secretary Alan Milburn, if he had teenage daughters, be happy for them to take the morning after pill? |
The announcement that the
morning-after pill will be made available to women over 16 without
prescription has got the 'holier than thou' brigade up in arms.
'Give young women the right to take responsibility for unprotected
sex? "Heaven forbid!"
A girlfriend and I went to an emergency clinic one morning because the condom we used had split. The GP we visited made us feel guilty and irresponsible. He handed us leaflets on contraception and said: "Read these and perhaps I won't have to see you again." Without access to the morning-after pill, the only option for a couple determined not to have an unwanted child is the ordeal of abortion. |
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