contraception
Contraception, and particularly the pill, has revolutionised sexual 'freedom'. Promoting contraception in schools through sex education is a key factor in government policy to reduce teenage pregnancy and STIs. These articles consider modes of action, effectiveness and ethical acceptability.
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More quangos for the bonfire? (triple helix - winter 2010)
Time for some truly independent advisors - Among the quangos due for dissolution are the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group (TPIAG) and the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV (IAGSH). Since TPIAG was set up in 1998 to halve the national under-18 conception rate by 2010,...
GP member comments on pharmacists providing contraceptive pill
14/12/2009
On 11 December it was announced that three pharmacies in Southwark and Lambeth have been given permission to pilot providing the oral contraceptive pill to girls aged 16 and over, without doctor involvement, in another attempt to reduce Britain's teen pregnancy rate. Sheffield GP Mark Houghton comments in the press and on BBC News about the...
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Submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship to the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice consultation with reference solely to proposed TV advertising of family planning centres and of condoms to children aged 10-16 - 19/6/2009
1. Introduction - The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation with more than 4,500 British doctors as members. All are Christians who desire their professional and personal lives to be governed by the Christian faith as revealed in the Bible. Members practise in all branches of the profession, and through the...Texting in for the morning-after pill
25/3/2009
The story that schoolgirls will be able to request the morning-after pill by text message to their school nurse made some front pages today. Six schools in Oxfordshire are to take part in a pilot project after a rise in the number of teenage pregnancies in the county. Any girl at four Oxford schools and two Banbury ones will be able to receive...
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Daily Mail: 'The sex timebomb: Its unthinkable... a generation of girls facing infertility due to sexually transmitted diseases'
30/10/2008
The Daily Mail Femail section today published a piece on the increase in sexually transmitted infections in young women, and their consequences. The article, including extensive comments by Dr Trevor Stammers, CMF Chairman, can be read online at the Daily Mail .
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The Morning After Pill (Book Review) (triple helix - autumn 2007)
John Ling - The Christian Institute 2007 - FREE (0191 281 5664) Pb 88pp - ISBN 1 90108 6364 - 'Human life begins when a man's sperm fertilises a woman's ovum.' This is the starting point for John Ling's elegant, thoroughly researched but hard hitting book on the morning after pill (MAP). Ling...
Morning after: the truth comes out (nucleus - autumn 2006)
Mark Houghton analyses a recent public policy failure - Gripping my hand, the female patient asked, 'Doctor, can I ever be forgiven?' She was talking about an abortion done decades before. Lovemaking without cost is the elusive Holy Grail of the sexual revolution. A policy that isn't working - The...
Saved sex - Getting increasing support (triple helix - summer 2005)
Contraception-focused sex education had an increasingly critical press this summer. In the UK, as latest figures showed the rate of pregnancies in under-16s in England and Wales increased by 1%, Beverley Hughes, the families and children's minister admitted that Government can do no more to reduce...
"Boots the chemist helped to create sexual epidemic which free chlamydia testing seeks to tackle," says CMF (8/2/2005)
The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) questioned the role of Boots the chemist after today's announcement that a free service to provide test kits to detect chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, is to be launched. CMF says, along with Government policy, Boots has helped to fuel the epidemic by making the morning after pill (MAP) more widely...Read Full Release...
Lothian Health Board Scheme to use Morning After Pill to reduce Abortions was "Misguided and ignored facts" says Christian Medical Fellowship (3/12/2004)
The scheme by Lothian Health Board to reduce unwanted pregnancies and abortions through giving women advance supplies of the morning-after-pill has been condemned as “misguided and ignorant of the facts” by the Christian Medical Fellowship [CMF]. CMF, who represent 4,500 Christian doctors in the UK, has frequently expressed its concern over...Read Full Release...