No sex, please, you're under 16 | IMGpapers 1980

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constituency Labour Parties were also present. Party LARC speaker SuE Freund argued that the Labour Party HOUST made to see that abortion is as much a senous Issuc as any other. We want to see members campaigning MAYA FESTIVAL TH -BANDS -FILMS -PLATS" MEETINGS-EXHIBITIONS ETC cessible to older teenagers.

traception. the pill to women in care age daughters.

sent.' ing an abortion part of the 'responsible society'. PREGNANCIES for under-16s have increas ed in the last ten years, while the number among 16-19 year olds has fallen. An important factor is that contraception is more ac Over the past few months several right wing pressure groups have been formed against the 'permissive society. They are concerned that under-16s can obtain conDorset county council is trying to stop women under sixteen in care from receiving contraceptives. The council has been lobbied by an organisation called 'Responsibility and Welfare, run by a general practitioner, Dr Rogers, who refused to prescribe Rogers' outfit is part of a larger organisation, the Responsible Society. One of its other offshoots, Parents in Suffolk, has complained about a doctor in Glasgow who prescribed a condom to a male under 16. In Suffolk a GP has agreed to a father's de mand not to prescribe the pill to his 'underGerard Vaughan, Tory health minister, has sent out guidelines stating that doctors 'will proceed from the assumption that it would be most unusual to provide advice about contraception without parental con.

But all this will only result in more pregnancies, not less sex. As Susie Hayman at Brook Advisory Centre puts it: 'Young women who are told by their doctors that the best contraception is "no" end up havPerhaps this is what is meant by being Socialist Challenge.. 19 March 1981 Page 11:

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FRANKIE Hughes Sands on hunger strike in Long Kesh. the latest stage in the Long Kesh and Armagh prisoners' demands.

The campaign outside the prisons has achieved wide backing, support committees throughout the 32 CounWhile a single British soldier 1 cilalls on the streets of Belfast or Derry, it is evident that Britain retains its 'right' to rule and bolster the ATE TO: