Students as young as 11 can receive free condoms, birth-control pills, morning-after pills, pregnancy tests and abortion advice at the new "sexual health" clinics in the U.K. And their parents will never find out.
The clinics, housed at hundreds of schools throughout the U.K., are part of a government strategy to reduce teen pregnancies. Yet researchers — who studied 16 clinics over 15 months — reported 213 pregnancy tests and 55 morning-after pills were handed out.
“Encouraging pre-teen sexuality by introducing powerful chemicals into children’s bodies is an experiment that may well contain lifelong health consequences,” said Linda Klepacki, sexual health analyst for Focus on the Family Action. “Setting health expectations at the lowest level is a dangerous practice that no country should consider.”
