How parents are being undermined by the promotion of emergency hormonal birth control to under-16s Norman Wells and Helena Hayward Waking Up to the Morning-After Pill documents how the emergency pill came to be vigorously promoted among children and young people, to the extent that three-fifths of Primary Care Trusts are now prepared to …
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Article – Don’t believe the contraception industry: sex education doesn’t work
The following article by Norman Wells was published in the Guardian on 7 December 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/dec/07/comment.sexeducation Polly Toynbee claims the small reduction we have seen in teenage conception rates “may be partly due to easier emergency contraception from local pharmacies” (Sex education works, so why is it not compulsory?, December 4). However, international studies have …
Factsheet – Young people and the morning-after pill
The ‘morning-after pill’ (MAP), more properly known as the emergency contraceptive pill, has been surrounded by controversy since it was first approved for use in the UK during the 1980s. At that time, the then Department of Health and Social Security offered reassurances that it would be used only in exceptional circumstances, and that it would remain …