We had copies of the Pro-Life Times handed out after Mass today. One article which caught my eye showed that research has demonstrated that increased access to the morning-after pill has no effect on unplanned pregnancy rates.23 studies from around the world failed to find lower pregnancy or abortion rates, despite more women taking the pills due to greater availability.
Professor David Paton, Nottingham University, was quoted as saying,
"This analysis confirms what the scientific research has been telling us for years: promotion of the morning-after pill does not reduce abortion or unwanted pregnancy rates. The body of published work on this question is wide-ranging and now surely without question.
"Just a few years ago, people promoting the morning-after pill told us that greater access to the drug was the single most important thing that could be done to lower rates of unwanted pregnancy. Now these same people freely admit that promotion of the morning-after pill does nothing to cut unwanted pregnancies."
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence is recommending that certain life-saving cancer treatments should not be available on the NHS because they are not "cost effective." So, by the same token, the morning-after pill will no longer be available on the NHS...
...yeah, right. And that's a flying pig up there.
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