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Girls as young as 13 to get morning-after pill
Daily Express ^ | 2/28/2007

Posted on 02/28/2007 3:12:47 AM PST by markomalley

SCHOOLGIRLS as young as 13 are to be supplied with the morning-after pill in a desperate attempt to cut teen pregnancies.

In a controversial move, pharmacies are to hand out the pills free to youngsters who fear they might be pregnant, without the consent of their parents.

The morning-after pill became available over the counter in 2001 and can be bought by anyone over 16.

In this latest move to reduce teen pregnancies, which has been attacked by pro-life groups and religious leaders, girls will not need parental consent for the pill but will need to prove their age.

Health chiefs in Portsmouth that insist the move is necessary to slash the number of teenage pregnancies in their area. Pregnancies among girls aged 15 to 17 in the city are around 26 per cent above the national average.

Although the age of consent for sex is 16, no fewer than 7,464 girls under that age – some as young as 13 – became pregnant in England in 2005, a rise of 283 on 2004.

Nearly six in 10 pregnancies ended in abortion. This was the biggest single annual increase in under-age pregnancies for a decade.

Many chemists now provide the morning-after pill either free on the NHS, or over the counter for around £25.

That has meant fewer women and young girls going to their GP for wider contraceptive advice.

Portsmouth health chiefs say the 12 pharmacists taking part in the new scheme will check whether the girls understand the pros and cons.

They must also check girls’ health and possibly refer them to a GP or family-planning clinic.

At the Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust, public health director Paul Edmondson-Jones said: “At the moment you can buy emergency contraception over the counter for about £25. But that amount is a huge barrier.”

Life charity spokeswoman Michaela Aston said the move was “very very worrying”.

She added: “The morning-after pill is a strong drug that is 50 times more powerful than the mini pill.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortifacient; abortion; teenpregnancy
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Wasn't somebody considering making this abortifacient an OTC drug in this country?
1 posted on 02/28/2007 3:12:51 AM PST by markomalley
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To: cgk; Mr. Silverback; Coleus; narses

pro-life ping for your lists


2 posted on 02/28/2007 3:14:01 AM PST by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus CINO-RINO GRAZIE NO)
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To: markomalley

Well, thats another "band-aid" solution to a critical moral problem...


3 posted on 02/28/2007 3:20:06 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: markomalley

This is nuts! Everything is kill, kill, kill. Why are people uncapable of planning anything nowadays? The country is getting weaker by the day.


4 posted on 02/28/2007 3:25:26 AM PST by MrMarbles
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To: markomalley

You know someone decided to change the name of this drug.....but the fact is the old name really said.....your either 4, 86 or your against it.


5 posted on 02/28/2007 3:44:42 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: markomalley
Portsmouth health chiefs say the 12 pharmacists taking part in the new scheme will check whether the girls understand the pros and cons.

Yeah, that'll help. They're 13 years old and possibly pregnant; they've already demonstrated that they have no sense.

6 posted on 02/28/2007 3:49:43 AM PST by Tax-chick (Every "choice" has a direct object.)
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To: markomalley
My Grandfather had the best advice of all, which was:

"Keep your future in your pants."

The so-called 'morning after pill' (RU-486, whatever) is not proven completely safe anyway, and after a spate of exploding wombs, internal hemorrhage and death, this ill-advised approach to 'reproductive health' may be revisited.

But I'm not holding my breath.
7 posted on 02/28/2007 3:58:37 AM PST by mkjessup (If Reagan were still with us, he'd say "Chairman Martinez? Tear DOWN those RINOS!")
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To: markomalley

Remember, stuff like this doesn't matter anymore because our 'mayor' has declared us to be the party of freedom...or is that the party of license (on non-gun related matters?)

...in the future, please restrict your posts to matters of taxation, spending, and war only because good Republicans aren't supposed to care about anything else (except gay-rights).

...Or we'll call you the American Taliban (a term heretofore reserved for a screwed up California kid from a liberal family who went to a Madrassa, but now applied to anyone who wakes up and goes to a non-Episcopal or non-Methodist church on Sunday).

All your media belong to us.

Regards,

The Committee To Lie About Rudy's Record


8 posted on 02/28/2007 4:06:05 AM PST by Old_Mil (Duncan Hunter in 2008! A Veteran, A Patriot, A Reagan Republican... http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: markomalley

Montgomery County Maryland is fighting teen pregnancy in a different. They are teaching kids homosexuality in the schools. They know the real way to stop unwanted pregnancy is to stop heterosexual sex.


9 posted on 02/28/2007 4:20:32 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: mkjessup

RU486 and the "morning after" pill are not the same. Not even close. Please do some research when you have time to learn more.


10 posted on 02/28/2007 4:58:51 AM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: Vaquero

See post 10. (sorry to ruin your pun)


11 posted on 02/28/2007 4:59:34 AM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: coop71; All
RU486 and the "morning after" pill are not the same.

I never said they were the same. Don't put words in my mouth.

Not even close. Please do some research when you have time to learn more.


Four Types of Emergency Contraception
by Marjorie Greenfield, M.D.

Four general methods of emergency contraception are currently available in the United States: the morning-after pill, in both estrogen-progestin and progestin-only formulas; the IUD; and RU486.
From:[http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,5706,00.html]

The bottom line is that all the aforementioned methods are classified together as options to terminate a pregnancy, and all serve the same purpose.

Please do some more moral contemplation when you have time to consider the consequences of such FDA-approved poisons on an unborn child.
12 posted on 02/28/2007 5:12:30 AM PST by mkjessup (If Reagan were still with us, he'd say "Chairman Martinez? Tear DOWN those RINOS!")
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To: Vanders9

So "Uncle Bob" takes Lena Mae down to the local Planned Parenthood office to get her fixed up. Anyone going to call the law? Nope. This ought to be real popular with the incest crowd.


13 posted on 02/28/2007 5:36:35 AM PST by dblshot
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To: mkjessup

"and after a spate of exploding wombs, internal hemorrhage and death"

How odd? I hadn't heard about any of this.


14 posted on 02/28/2007 5:40:59 AM PST by incredulous joe ("Somewhere in Massachusetts, a village is missing BOTH its idiots.")
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To: mkjessup

"and after a spate of exploding wombs, internal hemorrhage and death"

How odd? I hadn't heard about any of this.


15 posted on 02/28/2007 5:41:00 AM PST by incredulous joe ("Somewhere in Massachusetts, a village is missing BOTH its idiots.")
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To: mkjessup

"and after a spate of exploding wombs, internal hemorrhage and death"

How odd? I hadn't heard about any of this.


16 posted on 02/28/2007 5:41:07 AM PST by incredulous joe ("Somewhere in Massachusetts, a village is missing BOTH its idiots.")
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To: incredulous joe

ooops, sorry bout the dupe posts - somethings up with this browser, or else i need to switch over to decaf


17 posted on 02/28/2007 5:42:13 AM PST by incredulous joe ("Somewhere in Massachusetts, a village is missing BOTH its idiots.")
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To: mkjessup

I never said they were the same. Don't put words in my mouth.
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How, then, to interpret this statement of yours "The so-called 'morning after pill' (RU-486, whatever) ..."

Sure sounds like you are saying that they are they same thing.


18 posted on 02/28/2007 5:48:13 AM PST by dmz
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To: incredulous joe
I'd say try the decaf, lol

This is where my 'exploding womb' comment came from:

"In the process, the woman will lose on average 70 ml of blood, which is a blood loss four times greater than that of a suction curettage abortion, putting it beyond the normal "heavy" period. Surgical intervention is necessary 1 in 100 times to stop the bleeding, and though the bleeding usually lasts only two weeks, there are records of it going on for two months. For the most part the bleeding and cramping happen at home, away from the doctor’s supervision. Nausea, headaches, vomiting, and diarrhea are fairly common side effects too, and in a few cases more exotic symptoms are exhibited as well: dizziness, fatigue, back pain, uterine hemorrhage, fever, viral infections, vaginitis, rigors, dyspepsia, insomnia, asthenia, leg pain, anxiety, anemia, leukorrhea, sinusitis, and syncope. The FDA notes that "adverse event rates were highest at Planned Parenthood clinics and lowest at Free-Standing clinics, with university hospital clinics in the middle."

The rest of the artihttp://www.boundless.org/2000/features/a0000341.htmlcle (a great read by the way) is at:
19 posted on 02/28/2007 5:56:06 AM PST by mkjessup (If Reagan were still with us, he'd say "Chairman Martinez? Tear DOWN those RINOS!")
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To: dmz
How, then, to interpret this statement of yours "The so-called 'morning after pill' (RU-486, whatever) ..." Sure sounds like you are saying that they are they same thing.

The key word is *whatever*.

Once again, the bottom line is that all of these poisons result in the same thing: killing an unborn child.

Some will hide behind that old canard about "it's not a child, it's a ________ (fill in 'zygote, fetus, clump-of-cells, etc), but the issue here isn't the splitting of hairs regarding whether the "morning after pill" is similar to, same as, or totally different from RU-486 or any other pill, their common purpose remains the same.

Let's stay focused on that, shall we?
20 posted on 02/28/2007 5:59:33 AM PST by mkjessup (If Reagan were still with us, he'd say "Chairman Martinez? Tear DOWN those RINOS!")
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