~sigh~ i wish we could catch up.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

"One of Britain's largest supermarket chains plans to give teen-agers the morning-after contraceptive pill for free as part of a national effort to reduce the number of teen pregnancies.... The morning-after pill is a high dose of birth control pill taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. It is already available free with a prescription, but many women do not want to wait for a doctor's appointment and buy it over the counter for a fee."

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020318_489.html

(btw, you can contact the store http://www.tesco.com/ if you'd like to let them know how you feel about it.)

Comments

[arachne.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, UK pro-lifers are trying to get emergency contraception banned based on a 2-centuries-old (roughly) law.

Linkage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1813000/1813909.stm

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

i think they'll be hard pressed with it. i think they're wasting a lot of time and money that could be used caring for children presently in foster care. i'd love to see what one could do with all the money they waste. :p if they were pro-life for real, they'd be taking care of the living.

[arachne.livejournal.com]

Couldn't agree more myself. Here's hoping the law-lords laugh it out of the building.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

it's not so much that i even care to argue when a child is alive and when it is not... it's the hypocrisy of dumping money into the "saving" of theoretical babies of the future when so many living, breathing, present-tense little human beings are suffering and alone and without hope that outrages me.