I was going to post about the decision to make the Pill (an immensely powerful drug and in no sense medicine, since it is designed precisely to stop the body from functioning healthily) available over the counter, including to girls below the age of consent. But that decision is tragically unsurprising. See here.
By contrast, the coverage of it on The World At One, where the only debate was over whether pubescent girls should be supplied this toxin by a doctor or by a pharmacist in order to aid and abet criminal behaviour, was jaw-dropping, and demonstrated that Martha Kearney still imagines herself to presenting Woman's Hour, which, where such matters are concerned, has long been exempt from even the BBC's laughable standards of balance.
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Mr Lindsay,
ReplyDeleteI pressume you are referring to the morning after pill? My partner and I use the contraceptive variety and will continue to do so until we feel we are a) wise enough and b) financially secure enough to have children. Would you regard this as criminal behavior?
No, I mean the Pill. And the criminal beahviour is sex below the age of consent.
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