by Hilary White
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LONDON, April 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The UK’s Daily Mail reports that new rules will allow girls as young as 12 to be given the morning-after pill over the counter in pharmacies across the country without the knowledge of their parents. The morning-after pill first became available for sale to adults over the counter at chemists in 2001.
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Making MAP widely available has been a major project of a number of international population control groups over the last five years and the push to make the abortifacient drug available to underage girls has been successful in most western countries. In Britain there has been little opposition and nearly complete silence from the Catholic leadership.
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In early March, Cybercast News Service reported that the British government said that the cost of MAP will be slashed this month. Finance Minister Gordon Brown will reportedly cut sales tax on the over-the-counter drug, reducing it in price from around $43 to $38.
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The push for MAP is accompanied in Britain by skyrocketing rates of teenage out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Extensive and aggressive sex education campaigns and public distribution of artificial contraceptives have resulted in Britain having the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Western Europe.
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In response to the government’s plans to slash the price of MAP, Norman Wells, head of the Family Education Trust—an independent research organization – said the government would be more successful at reducing teen pregnancy rates if it were to discourage teenagers from having sex.
“The root of the problem,” said Wells, “is not the cost of contraception, but that we have divorced sexual activity from its proper place within a faithful marriage between one man and one woman for life.”
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