Politics
Tuesday June 8, 2004
Pro-Family Predictions about Morning After Pill being Realized in Australia and Jamaica
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
SYDNEY, June 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Australian federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has joined with the Australian Medical Association (AMA) in calling for more restricted access to the morning after pill, sold in Australia by the brand name, Postinor-2. "I am considering what the Government can do to try to ensure that it is only dispensed after suitable counseling," he said. Abbott is concerned that young girls and teenagers, who are able to buy the abortifacient drug over the counter, are using it without adequate medical supervision.
AMA ethics spokeswoman Rosanna Capolingua said, "Tony Abbott is right to be concerned about girls aged 14 or so being able to purchase the pill because there's clear concerns about age of consent and having unprotected sex." Capolingua continued, "Only a doctor is trained to counsel a girl about issues such as sex occurring under the influence of drugs or alcohol or in an abusive situation."
Meanwhile, pharmacists in Jamaica, where Prostinor-2 is also available without restriction over the counter, are complaining that the drug is being abused by young girls, even school children who have no problem buying it. The Jamaican pharmacists have seen a drop in condom sales indicating that more people are engaging in "unprotected" sexual activity and are therefore much more vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases.
One pharmacist who declined to be identified said, "Now that they have made it over the counter, everybody is just walking in for Postinor 2… Abstinence is no longer an option. We have had to increase stock. Once 10 packs of Postinor 2 would last for a month or a month and a half, now it lasts for two weeks or 10 days depending on the season. I am worried about the trend. It appears that persons are becoming more reckless. Some persons even come to purchase the pill before they have sex, just in case," she added.
Several United Nations-sponsored organizations such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNFPA have undertaken a gigantic global promotion of the morning after pill claiming that it is merely a contraceptive and is harmless. Pro-life, pro-family organizations have warned that the results would be exactly what is being observed in Jamaica and Australia. The push to make the morning after pill freely available was especially strong in developing countries where United Nations population control efforts have been particularly energetic.
Coverage from the West Australian:
http://www.thewest.com.au/20040608/news/general/tw-news-general-home-sto126255.h...
Coverage from the Jamaica Gleaner:
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20031130/lead/lead1.html
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- Cardinal Rigali: You Can't Claim to be "Reducing Abortions" but Publicly Funding them in D.C.
- General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase out Lab Rats
- Ohio Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood to Conceal Abortion Records in Sexual Abuse Case
- LifeSiteNews Canada Day and Independence Day Message. Taking a few days off. LSN returns Monday July 6
- Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Archbishop's Resignation Accepted Under Cloud of Vatican Newspaper Misrepresentation
- Pro-Life Groups Announce New Colorado Personhood Initiative
- Judge Puts Kibosh on DC Gay "Marriage" Referendum
- Al Franken Win Hands Supermajority to Senate Democrats
- Group Funded by Canadian Bishops' D&P Joins with Others to Denounce the "Natural Family" and "Family Rights"
- Financially Troubled Planned Parenthood of El Paso Closes Doors
- Abortion Linked to Subsequent Pre-Term Births, New Research Again Confirms
- New Orleans Homosexual Couple Ask Fed. Court to Overturn Marriage Amendment
- Slim Hope Of New Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Promoting Pro-Life, Pro-Family Issues
- Pope Accepts Resignation of Bishop Caught Involved in Homosexual Encounters
- Young Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour"
- Northern Ireland Politician Cleared of Wrongdoing after Reiterating Christian Teaching on Homosexual Acts
- UK Conservative Leader Speaks at Gay Pride Fundraiser
- More Letters to the Editor on Canadian Catholic Development and Peace Scandal (July 1)
- Letters to the Editor - Readers Respond to Development and Peace Scandal
- Watch This Dramatic New Video on Catholic Bishops Conference Funding of Pro-Abortion Groups
Most Read this Week
- Homosexual Duke U. Director Charged with Offering Adopted 5-Year-Old for Sex
- Famed Fr. Corapi Calls Canadian Bishops' Dissent from Humanae Vitae "Catastrophic"
- Pope: It is a Childish Faith to Oppose the Church Teaching on Life and Family
- Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Archbishop's Resignation Accepted Under Cloud of Vatican Newspaper Misrepresentation
- General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase Out Lab Rats
- LifeSiteNews Detailed Response to Canadian Bishops' Whitewash Report on Development and Peace
- Young Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour"
- Is Pro-Choice the New Pro-Life?
- Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
- Cardinal Rigali: You Can't Claim to be "Reducing Abortions" but Publicly Funding them in D.C.
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.