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Wednesday July 25, 2007
Two-Time Teenage Mothers to be Assigned “Contraception Counsellors” by British Government
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By Hilary White
LONDON, July 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government, in reaction to recent statistics that show the UK with the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe, will assign “contraception counsellors” to teenage mothers.
The move comes in response to statistics from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, showing that in 2005, one fifth of the teenagers who became pregnant were already mothers. The counsellors will on various family issues, including breastfeeding, nutrition and how to get contraceptives.
The Telegraph quoted Norman Wells, who said that the government’s dedication to the doctrines of the sexual revolution, including sex-ed in schools is what has created the problem. “So long as the Government encourages teenage sexual activity by making contraception freely and confidentially available in school clinics and other settings, teenage pregnancy rates will remain high and sexually transmitted infection rates will continue to soar.”
With governments and schools continuing to encourage young people to have sexual relations outside marriage, not only teenage pregnancy rates, but rates of sexually transmitted diseases have soared in Britain.
The latest figures from the Health Protection Agency show steady rises in the rates of genital herpes and chlamydia with especially high rates among young people and gay men.
Professor Pat Troop, chief executive of the Health Protection Agency told the BBC that while the rates of some STD’s has slowed, “The picture for young people remains particularly worrying.”
Mike Judge of the Christian Institute told the Telegraph, “What I would like to see the government doing is giving a bit of moral guidance to our children and educating them about how to say no to underage sex.”
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