Morning After Pill for Pre-teens. London
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Subject: Pupils as young as eleven to be given morning-after pill. Date:
Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:38 PM..
Monday 8 January 2001. London.
Pupils as young as eleven to be given morning-after pill, By Danielle
Demetriou. http://www.telegraph.co.uk
GIRLS as young as 11 will be able to
obtain the morning-after pill from school nurses without their parents'
permission in a move aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies.
The emergency contraceptive pill, which becomes available over the counter
in chemists this month, will be dispensed to pupils by nurses in state
schools. Parents will be informed if the pill is available at the school,
but because of confidentiality rules, will not be told if their daughter
receives it.
Critics claim the initiative, which is being piloted in areas with high
rates of teenage pregnancy, will undermine parents and encourage promiscuity
among under-age school children.
Dr Liam Fox, shadow health secretary, said: "Giving it out in schools is
sending the wrong message to girls. Parents will also feel that their rights
have been diminished by the Government. I think parents will be very alarmed
at the news." The move to dispense the drug was taken by local health
authorities as part of the Government's drive to halve teenage pregnancy
rates, which are the highest in Europe, by 2010.
The drug, which contains the hormone equivalent of six contraceptive pills,
is being dispensed at schools in Derbyshire, East Kent, Oxfordshire and
South Yorkshire. It is believed that at least three other regions are also
planning to adopt the practice in state schools.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "Whoever prescribes the pill
in schools will be trained to ask the right questions and make their own
decisions as to whether the young adult should receive it."
The morning-after pill is already available at various schools across the
country. At Myrtle Springs School, in Sheffield, pupils under the age of
consent are able to drop into a youth centre on the school grounds where
nurses dispense the morning-after pill. Parents of the pupils who visit the
club, which is run by youth workers from Sheffield city council, are not
informed if their daughters are given the pill.
Ed Wydenbach, the head teacher, said: "The area has a relatively high
number of teenage pregnancies and we have had a number of girls at our
school who have fallen pregnant. We believe the facilities improve young
people's self awareness and their understanding of sex and health issues."
The Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has condemned the scheme for
conveying the "wrong message" to young and impressionable school children.
Fr Kieran Conry, a spokesman for the Church, said: "It is a matter of
considerable concern. It is a way of solving the consequences rather than
trying to deal with the original problem. It is counter-productive and will
encourage more casual sex among under age children. It's giving the message
to pupils that they can more or less do what they want and get away with it,
regardless of parental concerns."
"... our efforts as educators must not be directed to restoring the past
order of morality but to participating in creating a new one... when it is
shed there will be a new moral order to take it's place... a counterculture
that will burst through the surface."
(Roberta T. Ash; "Durkheim's Moral Education Reconsidered: Toward the
Creation of a Counterculture". In SCHOOL REVIEW, November, 1971, p. 112)
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