Roundup: Won’t Someone Please Think of the Children?
Teenagers won't take birth control because it makes them fat, a pilot program offers OTC birth control pills, condoms cause pregnancy and more in today's roundup...
For this morning’s round up, I am channeling the good Mrs. Lovejoy. I’ll try to keep the faux outrage to a minimum.
One British newspaper claims that so many teenagers are having repeat
abortions since they won’t use contraception because, among other
reasons, it may make them fat.
Denise Haygar, fertility control manager with Durham and Darlington NHS Trust, deals with women having terminations.
She said the figures don’t surprise her and that some young women pay scant regard to contraception.
She
said: “If they put a bit of weight on or suffer headaches they blame
their contraception and stop using it. For others they will leave here
with a three-month supply of the Pill, and when it is used up not
bother getting another supply.”
Luckily, some more level heads in Britain are trying to take a reasonable approach to combating teenage pregnancy. A pilot
program is being launched to offer oral contraception over the counter
without a prescription at pharmacies in two inner city areas in London.
Initially, three pharmacies have been given permission to offer contraceptive consultations to girls aged over 16.
At Ridgeway pharmacy they are getting ready to put up bold,
colourful posters advertising in large letters "the pill without
prescription".For the past six weeks, young women asking for
emergency contraception – the morning after pill – have been offered a
private consultation on longer term alternatives.So far around
50 have chosen to switch over to an oral contraceptive after being
taken through similar checks to those which would be carried out by a
GP.
The initiative is a part of an attempt to halve the number of unintended teenage pregnancies in Britain by the year 2010.
Finally, a group in Malta is claiming
that the high rates of teenage pregnancies in Britain and other
countries is proof positive that condoms actually cause pregnancy
rather than prevent it (you know, if you believe that whole "If I don’t
have a condom I’ll just skip having sex" argument):
Evidence shows that contraception is leading to more abortions:
1,609 of 4,666 women (34.5 per cent) obtained abortions at the Leeds
Marie Stopes International abortion clinic due to condom failure; 27
per cent of the abortions performed at Paris’ St Louis Hospital are
carried out because of condom failure (NSO France).In a 1996 study of students requesting "emergency contraception"at
the Rusholme Health Centre in Manchester, 68 per cent claimed condom
failure (UK Unistat).
Of course, if I were a teenager reporting in to deal with an accidental
pregnancy, I would probably use "the condom broke" over "yeah, I just
wished and hoped I wouldn’t get pregnant" as my reason, too.
Mini roundup: While parents in Taiwan are putting children up for adoption because they can’t afford them, and another woman starts her own orphanage because she isn’t allowed to adopt, CBS pays for a couple’s travel in order to get a story on phony adoption agencies.
12/14
More
parents giving children up for adoption due to financial woes eTaiwan News
Portland
Archdiocese CCHD Office Admits, Stops Funding Pro-Abortion Group LifeNews.com
Women’s
fight for equal, quality health care
Workers World
Condom
use does not lower teenage pregnancies
Times of Malta
New
sexual health centre opening BBC News
Beliefs
aside, abortion is
legal Austin
American-Statesman
Coverage
for Abortions New York Times
The
Evolution Of The Federal Abortion Funding Ban NPR
Abortion
guidance must be redrawn BBC News
12/13
Clergy
back abortion care in any health reform The Journal News
When
adoption
failed, woman set up orphanage Belleville News Democrat
Kathryn
Lopez: Abortion argument not up to the task Auburn Citizen
Pro-Life
News: Britian, New Zealand, Memphis, Northern Ireland, Abortion, Arkansas LifeNews.com
Pro-Life
News: Senate Shift on Health Care?, Obama Approval Drops, LifeNews.com
Alaska
Pro-Life
Advocates Need Signatures for Parental Notification on Abortion LifeNews.com
From
the US, with love Times
of Swaziland
Figures
reveal shocking numbers of teenage abortions Sunday Sun
Senators
Discuss State of Health Care Bill CBS News
Senate
Approves Omnibus Bill Funding Abortions in Nation’s Capital, Obama to Sign LifeNews.com
12/12
Help
teens have sex without pregnancy guardian.co.uk
Opinion:
This is a ‘Prophetic Moment’ for Pro-Life Politicians Catholic Online
Signs
of the digital times; thousands sign online declaration Toledo Blade
For
Your Children, Your Grandchildren, the Future of Your Nation – For Life … Lifesite
Voice:
Writer says it’s sad but true Imperial Valley Press
Notre
Dame: What Convicts Can Teach Catholics TIME
Unintended
pregnancies Malaysia
Star
Cohabiting
Couple Discovers NFP and True Meaning of Marriage Catholic Online
Focus
on family
planning belated but welcome The Daily Star
Sex
ed bill has no value Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel
Abortion is
not health care Memphis
Commercial Appeal
Anti-abortion
Group Ending Vigil Tour In Mass., RI
WBZ
12/11
A
response to the pro-choice "coat hanger protest" American Thinker
Major
Co. judge to decide family’s sentence in adoption abuse NewsOK.com
CBS
Pays for Trip in Adoption Story ABC News
Teenage
girls to get contraceptive
pill in pilot scheme BBC
News
Editorial:
Mandatory sex-ed may spur better choices Chambersburg Public Opinion
Exercise
‘no aid’ for period pain BBC News
What
Next for the Abortion Funding Ban?
National Catholic Register
Lincoln
getting pounded by pro-lifers Politico
Commentary:
Mexican Victories Underscore Global Pro-Life Trend Lifesite
House
Approves Omnibus Spending Bill That Funds Abortions in Nation’s Capital LifeNews.com
Potential
Opponents of Pro-Abortion Barack Obama Fare Well in 2012 Polling LifeNews.com
Abortion,
Assisted Suicide and Bioethics Predictions for 2010, Tough Pro-Life
Year LifeNews.com
Rep.
Stupak to discuss pro-life prospects for health care bill in
EWTN interview Catholic
News Agency
What’s
Next on the Health Care Debate? Stop the Abortion Mandate Knows LifeNews.com
Saving
Mexico City: Pro-Life
Lobbying Salvages Attempt to Restore Abortion Limits LifeNews.com
Student
Group Makes Undercover Video at Planned Parenthood Clinic WBAY
Obama
Says Peace is Founded on Human Rights – Pro-life Leaders Respond Lifesite
Latinas
need voice in abortion debate CNN International
China
says population controls help fight climate change Reuters UK
Only
6pc using abortion pill Stuff.co.nz
US
Senate Poised to Approve Bill Funding DC Abortions, Overseas Abortion Providers Lifesite
Travis
Co. renews deals with 2 Austin abortion providers Houston Chronicle
Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend enters the health reform fray on abortion
Baltimore Sun
House
bill lifts DC’s abortion funding ban Washington Times
Attitudes
on Abortion:
The Yellow Flag Stays Out ABC News
Catholics
face moral crisis between healthcare reform and abortion
Christian Science Monitor
For
Sen. Nelson, opposition to abortion still a defining factor Washington Post
Opposition
to Health Care Bill Shoots Up After Abortion Funding Ban Defeated LifeNews.com
Anti-abortion
pandering Salt
Lake Tribune