Ireland: Doctors Oppose Easy Access to Morning After Pill

LifeSiteNews ^ | 5/18/06 | Gudrun Schultz

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GALWAY, Ireland, May 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors in Ireland believe over-the counter availability of ‘Plan B’ contraception would encourage young girls to be promiscuous, reported the Irish Medical Times today.

Research by general practitioner registrar Dr. Fionnula Murphy found that two-thirds of GP’s did not support easy access to emergency contraception.

Dr. Murphy questioned 106 GP’s in Cork, with a 66% response rate, and 170 female patients. 96% of physicians questioned said they prescribed the so-called morning-after pill. The four percent who did not said it was a moral issue for them.

The morning-after pill acts as an abortifacient, if fertilization of the egg has already taken place, by preventing the tiny human embryo from implanting in the womb.

The physicians who did not want to see emergency contraception available over-the-counter said the morning after pill is “technically a form of early abortion and therefore wrong,” and that it would encourage young girls to have sex with every “Tom, Dick and Harry.”

Physicians were also concerned that they would not have the opportunity to warn their patients of the dangers of unprotected sex, although only 31% said they always discussed sexually transmitted diseases when prescribing the pill.

Two thirds of patients surveyed said they wanted to see the pill available without prescription. The morning after pill is only available by prescription in Ireland, although it is available in pharmacies throughout the UK and much of Europe.

Dr. Murphy’s research won the Irish College of General Practitioner’s research competition at the annual general meeting.

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The physicians who did not want to see emergency contraception available over-the-counter said the morning after pill is “technically a form of early abortion and therefore wrong,” and that it would encourage young girls to have sex with every “Tom, Dick and Harry.”

And the problem is, that the leftists think this is what teenagers should be doing.

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Ping.

[llevrok]

How about a night before clothes pin !!!

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[Sax]

Ah, prevention through the 'hassle-method.' Pretty much anyone can still get it, IF they're willing to endure a hassle to get it. Yup, people sure do hate a hassle.

AND the girls will be much less encouraged to "have sex with every 'Tom, Dick and Harry'" if they know they'll have to endure a hassle afterwards.

Those damned hassles! But without them we'd be cast into hedonistic chaos.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like many Irish physicians,unlike US physicians,have a sense of morality and look upon Hippocrates as being worthy of respect and emulation.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The Irish Medical Council also resisted attempts to legislate on the X-Case Ruling, which would legalised abortion by the back door.

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Ping.

[jla]

I watched a DVD of The Corrs, live in Geneva. The sister, Caroline was back on tour six weeks after having a baby.
What caught my eye was that she kept pulling up the back of your britches, which obviously didn't fit because of her recent weight loss.
I thought to myself, "now there's a good gal, not worried about how she might appear to folks, just reacting like a normal postnatal mother". Although very attractive, she then became even that more endearing.

Note to Irish, and non-Irish, gals: The Corrs sisters evidently aren't infatuated with butter as many of you are. A little self-discipline can go a long way.

[Always Right]

The physicians who did not want to see emergency contraception

I just love liberals creative ways of saying stuff. What is the 'emergency' in emergency contraception? That perhaps someone might actually live?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Not The Corrs again... btw, do you know that there are actually four people in The Corrs?