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Abortion advice ads 'to be aired'

by generaldecay | March 26, 2009 at 12:02 am

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Pregnancy advisory services - including abortion information - could be advertised on TV and radio under proposals due to be released. Restrictions on condom adverts could also be relaxed, as part of plans aimed at reducing high UK rates of teenage pregnancy and sexual infections. They suggest condom adverts could be shown before the 2100 watershed.

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Pregnancy advice services, which includes information on abortions, would be allowed to advertise on radio and TV for the first time. Adverts for such services would have to make it clear whether it referred women for abortions.

I welcome this. The bare (excuse the pun) fact is that people have sex. Young people in particular have a lot of sex. Women get pregnant and they have no desire/ way to raise a child. Women need abortions. You can have whatever opinion you like on that (I, personally, am pro-abortion) but it doesn't change the fact that abortion is a necessary and important part of our society. The same goes for contraception. We need contraception.

It pointed to figures which showed over 11,000 under-16s were diagnosed with chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhoea, syphilis or genital warts from 2002 to 2006.

Yes, limit the advertisements so they're not shown in between cartoons if that's what is needed, but get the information out there. I'm very pleased with this progressive move.

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Paschen

at 02:38 on March 26th, 2009

I am not sure that is the right approach, some what archaic. They should be no need for abortion any longer today in the industrial world. We have far better methods to prevent a pregnancy then ever before. Education and access to those may be far more ethical and less traumatizing.

generaldecay

at 09:36 on March 26th, 2009

Thanks for the recommendation and comment, Paschen.

Yes, in an ideal world, there would be no such thing as unwanted pregnancies and therefore little or no need for abortion. But it's not an ideal world: burst condoms, missed contraceptive pills, failed /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} vasectomies, rape which results in pregnancy, teenagers who consider contraception about as often as I consider climbing Mount Everest, etc. etc. Regardless of all the the methods we have now to prevent pregnancy, we still have millions of unwanted pregnancies every year. That's the reality. And that's the bottom line for me - if we live in a society where even one woman has an unwanted pregnancy, we need abortion.

Rhonda J Mangus

at 04:39 on March 26th, 2009

Thanks for this story, generaldecay. I do, however, agree with Paschen that there "should be no need for abortion any longer today in the industrial world. We have far better methods to prevent a pregnancy then ever before. Education and access to those may be far more ethical and less traumatizing."

generaldecay

at 09:37 on March 26th, 2009

Thanks for the recommendation and comment, Rhonda. I agree with the philosophy behind Pashen's comment but I don't agree that it's realistic at all.

rose webb (not verified)

at 04:59 on March 26th, 2009

if they show thhese adverts, please please show exactley what happens when someone has one of these. You wouldnt need to show the after effects, long term psychological damage caused for many years after, but just the clinical proceedure where the un born child (yes it is a child) is "removed". lets face it if this accepted clean and legal proceedure is about killing, lets see how it kills! all the pro abortion lot im sure will wince and say ohhhhhhhhh how awful. well why not? if this is is sooooooo ok, lets see it in all its glory. I have the greatest sympathy for women whove been pushed into abortions. Personally i cant imagine my life ever being better if i killed one of my children. My children are far too precious and important to ever contemplate harming them let alone killing them on the assumption it would somehow improve my life !!!!!!