“Abstinence in itself is not a bad thing,” says Breedagh Hughes, of the Royal College of Midwives according to a
story in the Irish Times today.
Why are these people so opposed to the notion that it might be a good idea for fifteen year olds to not have sex? Are they afraid of lost contraceptive sales? Is it a judgement on their own past behaviour?
Audrey Simpson, the rather nasty director of the Northern Ireland Family Planning Association, sees a value in a school's ethos - so she says,...
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