Scottish Doctors Sterilize up to 400 Girls Without Parental Notification

LifeNews.com/The Scotsman ^ | Monday May 3, 2004

[Motherhood IS a career]

Doctors are giving carte blanche to me to have sex with under-age girls.

Is that some sort of creepy freudian slip? Doctors may be giving carte blanche to girls to have sex with whomever they want at anytime, but they are certainly not giving carte blanche to their potential sexual partners. That's a pretty twisted way to interpret things.

[JLS]

Exactly, contraception without parental permission or at least notification is bad enough. The headline is outrageous.

I take it you went to "British" schools whether in the UK or elsewhere around the world? I know of many of the various "suspenders-braces" and other word confusions between their meaning in the US and UK, so that was my first guess on this one. Hard to believe even the British press would right such a misleading headline and use the same inflamatory terminology in the article. Thanks for the clarification.

[petitfour]

Though I often assume sterilization means a permanent state of sterility, I suppose it could also be that the birth control renders a female sterile for a few years. I have read articles regarding the Norplant sterilization of Third World women, but that was years ago, and I have no idea as to their accuracy.

A college friend used Norplant during her first few years of marriage. Her first child was born with several birth defects that required multiple surgeries to correct. Were the birth defects a result of Norplant? I don't know. Would I use it or recommend my girls use it? No way.

[Da_Shrimp]

I take it you went to "British" schools whether in the UK or elsewhere around the world? I know of many of the various "suspenders-braces" and other word confusions between their meaning in the US and UK, so that was my first guess on this one.

Born, bred and educated in England. I know about the "suspenders-bracers" confusion you refer too as well (believe me, if you ever visit the UK, stay right away from 'fanny' ;-) )

I'm not too sure of the motives of the Scottish press in this article: deliberately using such an emotive word is unusual even for them, I'd say.