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Posted on 12/17/2007 10:05:49 AM PST by UKrepublican
Schoolgirls can get morning after pill wit.hout uttering a word by flashing 'modesty' card
Schoolgirls can now get the morning after pill by handing a request form to a pharmacy to avoid embarrassing conversations.
In a pilot scheme being trialled in pharmacies in Weymouth, Dorset, girls under 18 can get the pill simply by filling in a small card, without speaking to staff or answering any awkward questions.
It means teenagers don't have to undergo the "daunting prospect" of walking into a busy chemists and explain in front of strangers they have had unprotected sex.
The request cards have been printed and are being handed out in schools and youth clubs. Girls are also being advised to keep one in their purses or bags in case they need it in the future.
The initiative is being tested in Weymouth because of its alarmingly high rate of teenage pregnancies compared to the rest of Britain.
Youth workers believe one reason for this statistic is because teenagers are too ashamed to ask for the morning after pill after having unprotected sex.
Keith Williams, health programme adviser at the Dorset Primary Care Trust, said: "At the moment teenagers have to say over the counter that they had unprotected sex and need advice. There is maybe a certain stigma attached to that.
"These cards can be put on the counter rather than having to ask. It is almost adding a degree of confidentiality; people can do it almost without speaking."
He said the scheme is aimed at anyone under 18 who is sexually active.
Pharmacies in Weymouth and Portland have been briefed about the project. As well as the cards, posters and stickers explaining the service have been distributed to schools.
Mr Williams said: "Hopefully this will encourage more young girls to seek advice rather than just hoping that the inevitable doesn't happen.
"We would always advise people to use condoms but obviously mistakes happen and we want to make life as safe as possible for people." He said the scheme would continue indefinitely if it was successful.
Lisa Browne, teenage pregnancy strategy coordinator at Dorset County Council, advised teenagers to have a request card on hand in case they need it in the future.
She said: "It can sometimes be a daunting prospect for young women to walk into a busy pharmacy and ask for emergency contraception so we hope this will make the process easier.
"Whilst we would always advise people not to have unprotected sex, we would encourage women in the area to pick up a card and have it at hand should they need it in future."
Figures show there are 49 pregnancies per 1,000 teenage girls in the Weymouth and Portland area.The national average is 42.
The morning after pill - also known as emergency hormonal contraception - is effective up to 72 hours after having unprotected sex.
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How on earth can it be right to sell contraception to young girls?
Flashing their WHAT?
Never mind. I think I answered my own question.
Pop a pill and pretend "none of this ever happened". Out of sight, out of mind.
LOL, a little bit late for modesty!
“At the moment teenagers have to say over the counter that they had unprotected sex and need advice. There is maybe a certain stigma attached to that.”
There is no stigma against doing these things but there are still some fuddy duddy “prudes” who make moral judgements over peoples’ sexual affairs.
When the sex positive agenda has completed its goals, there will be no moral judgements over any pairings regardless of age, sex, relation, marital status, number or species of partner(s).
Don’t they have a vaccine? Why isn’t the vaccine mandatory?
Why is the british government so dead set serious about encouraging irresponsible behaviour ?
But, obviously not too ashamed to take their close off for the unprotected sex!!! Unreal!!!!! Modesty? Not even close.
I could have used one of those when I was trying to buy Playboys.
At least when they take the pill , the only thing they destroy is their self respect.
Age of consent ranges from 14 to 18 in the US in addition to “Romeo & Juliet/Romeo” exception in many states’ laws to permit someone within around 3 years older than the other participant to engage in “the act” even if one or both are below age of consent.
In the US, it is illegal to give medical care to a minor without parental consent except with regards to abortion because it is politically correct.
FIRST LOOK: SPY PHOTOS OF THE "MODESTY CARD"
So what happens when some girls start abusing the anonymity of it and get it without proper consultation? When some girl overdoes it and dies from uterine bleeding? Or damages her reproductive tract? What then. These people are so blinded by their agenda that they disregard basic safety principles behind modern pharmacutical use.
You are not an ‘adult’ until you are 18 when you can vote etc.
But you can fight for your country, buy ciggarettes and have sex at the age of 16.
It never ceases to amaze me how the Left will advocate policies that are completely contrary to how they would parent their own children.
This article doesn't even mention that one factor in the out-of-control disease rates among British children and young adults may be the introduction of the “morning-after” pill. According to testimony offered to the FDA in 2004, sexually-transmitted infections soared in the British Isles when “Plan B” (the morning-after pill) was made available without prescription in 2000.
Ignoring the warning signals from the UK, California subsequently became one of the first states to permit the sale of Plan B over-the-counter without an age limit. (Compiled testimony of Wendy Wright, Carole Denner, and Jill Stanek, "The Morning-After Pill: An Ill Wind This Way Blows.") So now, a study published in September in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion reports that in 2005 there were 1.1 million new cases of sexually-transmitted infections among young people in California. The 1.1 million figure is ten times higher than previously believed, and it means that in the 15-24 age group, diseases such as gonorrhea, HIV, and HPV infect one out of every four young Californians.
Plan B: the solution... to the horny boy's problem.
Hey! I thought we were in favor of expanding capitalism throughout the world?? : )
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