Morning-after pill a mask and a menace

I REFER to the Western Mail article of March 27 headed “Teenage pregnancies fall by half in a decade”. Have they really?

Unfortunately the article fails to acknowledge the number of teenage pregnancies ended by taking the morning-after pill (MAP). How refreshing would it be if the journalists challenged the “experts” about the nature of this pill and the true nature of other so-called birth control methods which can cause an early abortion.

I have written before to local Welsh newspapers about emergency contraception, often described as the morning-after pill (MAP) which is administered at Welsh chemists, amazingly to under-age girls, without parental knowledge, and unknown to the child’s GP – this is not good and dangerous. One must also ask, could this girl be getting sexually abused? This needs to be looked at. The MAP can act as an early abortion, by suppressing transportation of the embryo to the mother’s womb. Surely she is a mother once fertilisation has taken place? This pill can also change the endometrium, making implantation less likely, and this could cause an early abortion.

Finally, one other side-effect of providing this pill is to encourage risk-taking sexual behaviour and in this way the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), as it offers no protection against these. One has to wonder why health experts say little or nothing publicly about the number of people being treated under the NHS for such diseases. It must be costly to the NHS financially and to women’s’ health in general. Paul Botto Information Officer (Wales/ Cymru) for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Cardiff