Parental responsibility foiled

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Parental responsibility?   How?

472 girls as young as 11 have received the abortifacient morning-after pill from school nurses in Oxfordshire, England, without the knowledge of their parents over the past five years, according to newly released statistics. A government-backed pilot scheme in which school nurses have been able to dispense the drug to pupils during lunchtime has been operating in 17 schools across Oxfordshire, and the department of health is now urging other local authorities to join the scheme. Among those which have agreed is West Sussex, where the scheme is due to commence next Spring, and Wandsworth in south London, where a school in Balham will pilot the project in the new year. The stated aim of the schemes is to reduce teenage pregnancy rates, but the Daily Telegraph reports that even the pioneers of the scheme in Oxfordshire have admitted that it has had little effect on recorded conception rates. [Daily Telegraph, 17 November]

[Courtesy of SPUC. Links to web-based sources are on the web-version of this email. Such emails are listed at www.spuc.org.uk/news. This bulletin is privately circulated by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 5-6 St Matthew Street, London, United Kingdom, SW1P 2JT, +44 20 7222 5845. The reliability of the news herein depends on that of the cited sources, which are paraphrased rather than quoted. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the society.]

Updated 11/19/2002


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