It is planned by the government that school nurses will be allowed to dish out the morning-after pill, on demand, to schoolgirls under the age of consent, and without the knowledge of parents.It is my understanding that this is already a fairly common practice.
This means that parents are denied knowledge of their children's sexual activities - a fact which can actually be used against them in certain legal circumstances. It means that a dangerous drug with a history of sudden deaths attached can be given to, say, an eleven year old and the parents are to be 'kept out of the loop'.
One more way the government plays into the hands of the 'irresponsibility lobby'; one more way in which the government fuels the rise in under age sexual activity; one more way government undermines the family; one more way a government which is supposed to build society prefers to wreck it.
I do accept that use of the morning-after pill is a morally ambivalent area. I can only see justification for this as a 'lesser evil' however, in a context where it might prevent an otherwise inevitable abortion at a later stage and personally, I feel that its use is fully justified post rape.
Its current social use as 'a late form of contraception' is reprehensible. If proof be needed, it can be seen that a massive number of young women use this drug repeatedly!
LINKS: http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mos/mos_31pillcankill.html
http://www.abortiontv.com/Methods/RU486-MediaSilent.htm
http://www.spuc.org.uk/ethics/morning-after-pill
