The link is an article from the Daily Mirror which says, as above, that the morning after pill has been made available to under 16's.
The article also states that the pharmacists will ask the girl (wanting the pill) a variety of questions before they are given it and they will also decide whether the girls parents will need to be informed (presumably through her doctor).
The magazine that posted the link asked if under 16 is too young to be able to get the morning after pill? My view: no.
Plenty of young people have sex under age and have unwanted pregnancy's through: lack of protection, lack of education, or just through the fact that one of those slippery little sucker sperms got through.
I think if you make the decision you want to take the pill below 16 to protect against pregnancy, you are questioned by a pharmacist and still want to go ahead with it then why be forced to be stuck with a possible pregnancy that you don't want? An abortion would be a lot harder in the long run.
Yes, it is young, but we are not all blinkered by the fact that young people have sex.
People have commented on the above post regarding the question:
Will it encourage more teens to have underage sex?
I don't think so, I think the main reason young people have sex is due to lack of education from schools and at home. I wrote a blog not long ago about a teacher taking her students to a sex shop to give them a sex education lesson and wrote my opinion (http://sym-ple1.blogspot.com/2015/06/teacher-takes-children-to-sex-shop-for.html)
It's all relative, sex needs to stop being such a taboo at school and at home.
Below is my comment on the above post...
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