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 …
Publication – Waking up to the morning-after pill
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 …
Publication – Why the Government’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy is destined to fail
A survey of teenage pregnancy strategy documents produced by twenty-three authorities in different parts of England finds a universal commitment to earlier and more explicit sex education and easier availability to contraception as the keys to reducing the rate of teenage pregnancy. Taking their cue from the Teenage Pregnancy Unit, the local strategies fail to …
Submission – House of Commons Health Committee Inquiry on Sexual Health
Download pdf FAMILY EDUCATION TRUST SUBMISSION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS HEALTH COMMITTEE INQUIRY ON SEXUAL HEALTH 1. The Family Education Trust was founded in 1971 to carry out research into the causes and consequences of family breakdown, and to publicise the findings of such research. 2. The Trust has always made the welfare …
Publication – The Condom Controversy: Safe Sex or Russian Roulette?
Dr Trevor Stammers writes: “In the past few years, I have seen a huge increase in cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the part of London where I practice as a doctor. The genito-urinary medicine clinics are under pressure coping with the increasing workload and the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases …