I have just read on the BBC news website that there a proposals to allow abortion clinics and information on abortion to be advertised on tv and radio.
They say this is in a bid to lower teenage pregnancy rates. I'm sorry, but I really don't think this will help, or that its right. Firstly, until you have an abortion, you are pregnant, so if they want to reduce teenage pregnancies, this isnt the answer, clearly. Now I realise they probably been pregnancies that go full term, but surely a more conservative approach would be a better way to try and lower teen pregnancy-such as teaching teens about safe sex, and condom use, the pill for example. Or the best way, and pretty sure fire way of not getting pregnant-not having sex.
Also, if they want teenagers to have abortions to lower the rate of teenage pregnancy, they problem they will then be left with, will be a rise in the rate of teenage abortions-which I feel is just as shameful for a country as a high teen-pregnancy rate. What does that say about the people of Britain if our teenagers who are having of sex, are getting pregnant and then not sparing a thought for their unborn children.
Fair enough, advertise pregnancy advice and condoms but advertising abortions, in a way that suggests they are a method of contraception, this is just wrong, and I am sad that our country has got to this state.
